Background
Wijnen was born as the eldest in a family of ten children.
Wijnen was born as the eldest in a family of ten children.
He was the officer in charge when the took place during the Indonesian National Revolution in which Dutch troops killed over 400 Indonesian civilians. After the war he had two children. During the war he fled as Engelandvaarder, through France and Spain to Britain.
After the war he was sent to the Dutch East Indies for three years and served with the Royal Dutch East Indies Army during the Indonesian National Revolution.
Wijnen was involved in a massacre in Rawagede. Despite the recommendation of General Simon Spoor to prosecute Wijnen, in 1947 Dutch Attorney General.
H. A. Felderhof decided not to prosecute the responsible major for war crimes. Major Wijnen was promoted to colonel and appointed battalion commander to the Major General de Ruyter of Steveninck Barracks in Oirschot and later as garrison commander of Eindhoven.