Retirement
En route home via French Indochina, de Wiart stopped in Rangoon as a guest of the army commander. Coming down stairs, he slipped on coconut matting, fell down, broke his back and several vertebrae, and knocked himself unconscious. He eventually made it to England and into a hospital where he slowly recovered. The doctors succeeded in extracting a incredible amount of shrapnels from his old wounds. He recovered and then went to Belgium to visit relatives.
His wife died in 1949 and in 1951, at the age of 71, he married Ruth Myrtle Muriel Joan McKechnie, a divorcee known as Joan Sutherland (she died 13. January 2006, aged 102 (born late 1903)), and settled at Aghinagh house, Killinardish, County Cork, Ireland, taking up a life pursuing salmon and the snipe. His wife was 23 years his junior.
De Wiart died at the age of 83 on 5 June 1963.
He and his wife, Joan, are buried in Caum Churchyard just off the main Macroom road. The grave site is just outside the actual graveyard wall on the grounds of his own home Aghinagh House.
De Wiart's will was probated in Ireland at 4,158 pounds sterling and in England at 3,496 pounds sterling.
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