Ahmet M. ŠEHOVIĆ 

AHMET ŠEHOVIĆ, son of MUHA, born on June 4, 1919, in Mostar, a locksmith, member of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ) since 1940, and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1941. His house served as a gathering place for volunteers who were sent to the detachment. He joined the Battalion in September 1941 and became a squad leader. He managed to escape the surrounded school in the village of Bijela near Konjic during the Chetnik coup in June 1942. After the Fifth Offensive and breaking through the encirclement at Sutjeska, exhausted fighters were ordered to return to Mostar for recovery. After some time, he rejoined the detachment. He was killed in Brđani near Konjic in December 1943. Described as “reserved, serious, and authoritative due to his courage.”

EXCERPT FROM LITERATURE about Ahmet Šehović’s death:

“On the eve of New Year’s, squad leader Ahmet Šehović set out with a group to the Rama Detachment to collect supplies sent by the Supreme Headquarters for Herzegovina and Montenegro and for our Battalion. As we were crossing the railway, our column came under fire from improvised shelters. Šehović advanced toward an enemy bunker with a grenade in his hand. At the moment he swung to throw the grenade, he was hit by an enemy bullet in the arm. Ahmet dropped the grenade, which exploded and killed him. Danilo Bilanović, Muhamed Bakija, and Šerif Ombašić retrieved Ahmet’s body and carried him with other fighters towards the village of Trešnjevica, where they later buried him. Shortly after the gunfire, an armored train appeared, and in the dark night, the Germans randomly opened fire in the direction of our fighters.”