Tragedy at Dieppe Page 45
Norman L.R. Franks, Greatest Air Battle: Dieppe, 19th August 1942 (London: William Kimber, 1979), 32.
Ibid., 38–39.
“Report of the Port Commandant Dieppe on the Fighting on 19 Aug 42,” 981GN(D13), vol. 20488, box 218, RG24, LAC, 1–3.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—South Saskatchewan Reports,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 16.
Ibid., 10.
“Report No. 101, General Outline and Flank Attacks,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 68–69.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—South Sask. Reports,” 2.
Ibid., 4.
South Saskatchewan Regiment War Diary, Appendix 7, RG24, LAC, 4.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 9, 4.
Ibid., 19.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—South Sask. Reports,” 7–9.
John Edmondson, interview by Chris Bell, June 6, Aug. 4 and 12, 1982, UVICSC.
John S. Edmondson and R. Douglas Edmondson, “Memories and Reflections on the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942,” Canadian Military History, vol. 13, no. 4 (Autumn 2004), 51.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 9, 2.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—South Sask. Reports,” 15.
Ibid., 10–11.
Ibid., 19–20.
Wallace Reyburn, Glorious Chapter: The Canadians at Dieppe (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1943), 63–64.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—South Sask. Reports,” 16.
Reyburn, 71–72.
Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 138.
“Report No. 101,” 85.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 9, 17.
Ibid., 12.
Ibid., 4.
Ibid., 5.
Ibid., 3.
Ibid., 14.
Ibid., 7.
Ibid., 21.
Edmondson and Edmondson, 52.
“Charles Edward Sawden,” Veterans Affairs Canada, accessed Jan. 14, 2012, www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/virtualmem/photoview/2317422/21197.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—South Sask. Reports,” 10.
Edmondson interview.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—South Sask. Reports,” 5.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 9, 16.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal account (S Sask R),” 232C2.(D66), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 4–5.
Edmondson interview.
16 Hell of a Fix
“Report No. 101, General Outline and Flank Attacks,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 86–87.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 232C2.(D65), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 150.
“Report No. 101,” 87.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, Appendix V: “Interview with Sub-Lieut. J.E. O’Rourke, RCNVR,” 1.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 125.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 371.
“Report No. 89, The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Personal Stories of Participants,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 75.
Ibid., 68.
Ibid., 76.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 109.
Norman H. Ross, interview by Chris Main, July 20 and August 16, 1979, UVICSC.
South Saskatchewan Regiment War Diary, August 1942, RG24, LAC, 9.
Ibid., 10.
Martin Sugarman, “Jack Nissenthall—The VC Hero Who Never Was,” Harry Palmer Gallery, Dieppe Raid Gallery, accessed Apr. 10, 2012, www.aportraitofcanada.ca /?p=2216.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Memorandum of Interview with Major J.E. McRae,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 2.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 7, 7.
“Report No. 89,” 76.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 125.
“Report No. 101,” 93–94.
“Report No. 89,” 77.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (S Sask R),” 232C2.(D66), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 8.
John S. Edmondson and R. Douglas Edmondson, “Memories and Reflections on the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942,” Canadian Military History, vol. 13, no. 4 (Autumn 2004), 55.
“Report No. 101,” 81–82.
“Report No. 89,” 68.
Ross interview.
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders War Diary, August 1942, Appendix 9, 2.
Ross interview.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 373–74.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 1.
“Report No. 101,” 99–100.
“Report No. 89,” 71–72.
“Report No. 101,” 100.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 50.
“Report No. 101,” 100–101.
“Report No. 89,” 71.
Ross interview.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 33.
Ibid., 50–51.
Ibid., 107–08.
“Report No. 89,” 71.
“Report No. 10, Information from German War Diaries,” AHQ, DHH, DND, 12–13.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 9, 2.
“Op ‘Jubilee’—Courts of Inquiry,” 232C2.(D83), vol. 1085, box 252, RG24, LAC, 49.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 7, 2.
“Report No. 101,” 108.
“Report No. 89,” 78.
Ross interview.
“Report No. 101,” 110.
“Memorandum of Interview with Private W.A. Haggard,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 3.
Wallace Reyburn, Glorious Chapter: The Canadians at Dieppe (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1943), 107.
17 Such a Carnage
“Report No. 101, General Outline and Flank Attacks,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 30–31.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 232C2.(D61), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, 1.
“Report No. 101,” 31.
D.J. Goodspeed, Battle Royal: A History of the Royal Regiment of Canada, 1862–1962 (Toronto: Royal Regt. of Canada Assoc., 1962), 394.
“Report No. 101,” 23–24.
Ibid., 64–65.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Detailed Narrative—Enclosure No. 3 to the Naval Force Commander’s No. NPJ.0221/92 of 30th August, 1942,” 7.
Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord (Toronto: Macmillan, 1945), 324–25.
“Report No. 101,” 27–28.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 9.
Ibid., 22.
Ibid., 17.
“Report No. 101,” 30.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 11.
Ibid., 10.
Ibid., 13.
Ibid., 10.
Ibid., 20.
Ibid., 3.
Ibid., 22.
Ibid., 3.
“Report No. 89, The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Personal Stories of Participants,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 7.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Action of Royal Regiment of Canada (Blue Beach): Statement of Sgt. Legate,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 1.
“In Memory of Lieutenant William George Rogers Wedd,” Veterans Affairs Canada, accessed Jan. 18, 2012, www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/virtualmem/Detail /2317531.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 20.
Ibid., 11.
Royal Regiment of Canada War Diary, August 1942, Appendix 7, RG24, LAC, 1.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 11.
Ibid., 12.
Ibid., 15.
Ibid., 12.
Munro, 325–28.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 14.
Ibid., 16.
Ibid., 3–5.
Ibid., 11.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 367.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 6.
Ibid., 8.
Ibid., 4.
Ibid., 9.
Ibid., 4.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Statement of Sgt. Legate,” 6.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 9.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Statement of Sgt. Legate,” 6–7.
“Report No. 101,” 48–49.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, Appendix V, “Report by Lieutenant J.E. Koyl,” 8.
Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker, Dieppe: Tragedy to Triumph; A Firsthand and Revealing Critical Account of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II (Whitby, ON: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992), 247.
Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 123.
“Report No. 101,” 39–40.
“Report No. 89,” 8–9.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 367.
“Report No. 89,” 8–9.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 5.
“Report No. 101,” 57–58.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (R Regt of C),” 8.
“Report No. 101,” 58.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, Appendix V, “Interview with Sub-Lieut. J.E. Boak,” 15.
“Report No. 86,” 7–10.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 367–69.
18 Murderous Crossfire
“Report No. 108, The Attack on the Main Beaches,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 7–9.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 374.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Narrative of Experiences at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42 by Lt.-Col. R.R. Labatt, OC, RHLI,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 4–5.
Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker, Dieppe: Tragedy to Triumph; A Firsthand and Revealing Critical Account of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II (Whitby, ON: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992), 242.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/338, “Memorandum of Interview with Lieut. L.C. Counsell,” 1.
Kingsley Brown Sr., Kingsley Brown Jr., and Brereton Greenhous, Semper Paratus: The History of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment), 1962–1977 (Hamilton: RHLI Historical Assoc., 1977), 198.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Naval Force Commander’s Narrative, No. NPJ.0221/92 of 30th August, 1942,” 3.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, “Observations on ‘Jubilee’ by Brigadier General L.K. Truscott,” 2.
Norman L.R. Franks, Greatest Air Battle: Dieppe, 19th August 1942 (London: William Kimber, 1979), 44–48.
“Report of the Port Commandant Dieppe on the Fighting on 19 Aug 42,” 981GN(D13), vol. 20488, box 218, RG24, LAC, 2.
Andrew R. Ritchie, Watchdog: A History of the Canadian Provost Corps (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 53.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” 232C2.(D57), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 25.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Labatt,” 5.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 243.
Brown Sr., Brown Jr., and Greenhous, 197.
“Report No. 108,” 11.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Labatt,” 5.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 375–76.
“Report No. 89, The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Personal Stories of Participants,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 55.
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry War Diary, August 1942, Appendix 18, RG24, LAC, 24.
Ibid., 21.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/338, “Memorandum of Interview with Counsell,” 2.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 47.
Brown Sr., Brown Jr., and Greenhous, 198–99.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 41.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Labatt,” 6.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 2.
Ibid., Appendix A, “Recommendations for Awards and Mentions,” 16.
“Report No. 89,” 81.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 253.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 38.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 375.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 29.
Kingsley Sr., Kingsley Jr., and Greenhous, 200.
Sandy Antal and Kevin Shackleton, Duty Nobly Done: The Official History of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (Windsor, ON: Walkerville, 2006), 404.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” 13.
Ibid., 25.
Antal and Shackleton, 405.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 376.
Antal and Shackleton, 405.
Essex Scottish Regiment War Diary, August 1944, Appendix 6, “Attack on Dieppe, 19 Aug 42,” RG24, LAC, 2.
Antal and Shackleton, 405.
19 A DeathTrap
“Report No. 108, The Attack on the Main Beaches,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 12–13.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 375.
Hugh Henry, “The Tanks of Dieppe: The History of The Calgary Regiment (Tank), 1939 to August 19, 1942,” MA thesis, University of Victoria, 1985, 75.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” 232C2.(D57), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 3.
Henry, 76–77.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” 3.
Henry, 77–78.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” 6.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Major Sucharov, Royal Canadian Engineers,” 1.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” 6.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Major Sucharov,” 1.
Henry, 78–79.
Ibid., 80.
Stan Kanick, “Chert Beach—Alias Dieppe,” in Onward I: The Informal History of the Calgary Regiment, 14th Canadian Armoured Regiment, ed. Dick Maltby and Jessie Maltby (Vancouver: 50/14 Veterans’ Assoc., 1989), 1.
“Report of the Port Commandant Dieppe on the Fighting on 19 Aug 42,” 981GN(D13), vol. 20488, box 218, RG24, LAC, 4.
Ibid., 80–81.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Statement of Sgt. J.W. Marsh, Black Watch with Mortar Platoon on LCT2,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 132.
Henry, 80–81.
Ibid., 83–84.
Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan London, 1980), 163.
Henry, 84–85.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on Dieppe by Captain C.R. Eldred,” 2.
“Report No. 107, The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Further Personal Stories of Participants, CMHQ, DHH, DND, 5.
Henry, 87–88.
Andrew R. Ritchie, Watchdog: A History of the Canadian Provost Corps (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 53.
Atkin, 165.
Henry, 88–93.
Sandy Antal and Kevin Shackleton, Duty Nobly Done: The Official History of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (Windsor, ON: Walkerville, 2006), 408.
“Report No. 107,” 10.
Antal and Shackleton, 408.
John Mellor, Dieppe—Canada’s Forgotten Heroes (Scarborough, ON: Signet, 1975), 87.
Antal and Shackleton, 408.
“Report No. 107,” 10.
Antal and Shackleton, 408–09.
Essex Scottish Regiment War Diary, August 1944, Appendix 6: “Attack on Dieppe, 19 Aug 42,” RG24, LAC, 2–4.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” 232C2.(D57), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, 1.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Memorandum of Interview with CSM J. Stewart, RHLI, 26 Oct. 42,” 1–2.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Narrative of Experiences at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42 by Lt.-Col. R.R. Labatt, OC, RHLI,” 7.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on Approach, Landing and Subsequent Events Dieppe by Brig. W. Southam,” 2.
Ed Bennett, “Dieppe 1942,” in Onward I: The Informal History of the Calgary Regiment, 14th Canadian Armoured Regiment, ed. Dick Maltby and Jessie Maltby (Vancouver: 50/14 Veterans’ Assoc., 1989), 1.
Henry, 94.
John S. Moir, ed., History of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, 1903–1961 (Ottawa: Corps Comm., Royal Cdn. Corps of Signals, 1962), 120.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Southam,” 2–3.
Moir, 121.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Southam,” 3.
“Dieppe: Report of Tank Action,” 594.011(D1), DHH, DND, 2.
Henry, 99–100.
A.J. Kerry and W.A. McDill, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol. 2 (Ottawa: Military Engineers Assoc., 1966), 106.
Henry, 101.
Ibid., 100.
Ibid.
Kerry and McDill, 105.
Ibid., 101–06.
20 Situation Very Grim
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 182.
John S. Moir, ed., History of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, 1903–1961 (Ottawa: Corps Comm., Royal Cdn. Corps of Signals, 1962), 123.
“Communications, Operation ‘Jubilee,’ ” 232C2.(D6), vol. 10870, box 250, RG24, LAC, 2.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, “Observations on ‘Jubilee’ by Brigadier General L.K. Truscott,” 2.
nd Canadian Infantry Division (G Branch) War Diary, August 1942, “Operation ‘Jubilee’ Intelligence Log,” RG24, LAC, 1.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 368.
Colonel Ed Rayment (Retd.) correspondence with author, Feb. 8, 2012.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 169.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/334, “Preliminary Report on Activities of Group 5 During Operation Jubilee by Commander D.B. Wyburd,” 2.