by Mark Zuehlke
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 186.
John Durnford-Slater, Commando (London: W. Kimber, 1953), 105.
nd Canadian Infantry Division War Diary, “Intelligence Log,” 1–2.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 368.
“Report No. 108, The Attack on the Main Beaches,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 43.
Robin Neillands, The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition (London: Aurum Press, 2005), 234.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/328, “Dieppe: Stories of Raid,” 5.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 182.
nd Canadian Infantry Division War Diary, “Report on Operation Jubilee,” 2.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 185.
Cent ans d’histoire d’un régiment canadien-français: Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, 1869–1969 (Montreal: Éditions Du Jour, 1971), 138–39.
Dollard Ménard and C.B. Wall, “The Meaning of Bravery,” The Canadians at War, 1939/45, vol. 1 (Montreal: Reader’s Digest Assoc. [Canada], 1969), 196.
“Report No. 90, The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Further Personal Stories of Participants,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 30–31.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on Approach, Landing and Subsequent Events Dieppe by Brig. W. Southam,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 4.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on the Dieppe Raid on 19th August, 1942 by Lt. P. Ross (RNVR),” 4.
“Report No. 89, The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Personal Stories of Participants,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 31.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Personal Account of Sergeant Major L.A. Dumais,” 1.
“Op ‘Jubilee’ Personal Accounts (Fus M.R.),” 232C2.(D55), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 14.
Ibid., 39.
“Memorandum of interview with Major Guy Vandelac, 6 Nov 46,” 594.011(D5), DHH, DND, 1–2.
“Report No. 90,” 33.
Ménard and Wall, 196–97.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Narrative of Experiences at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42 by Lt.-Col. R.R. Labatt, OC, RHLI,” 8–9.
nd Canadian Infantry Division War Diary, “Intelligence Log,” 4.
th Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, August 1942, “Major P. Garneau account,” RG24, LAC, 1.
Ibid., 2.
Hugh Henry, “The Tanks of Dieppe: The History of The Calgary Regiment (Tank), 1939 to August 19, 1942,” MA thesis, University of Victoria, 1985, 102.
th Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, “Garneau account,” 3.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Labatt,” 7.
nd Canadian Infantry Division War Diary, “Intelligence Log,” 6.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/330, “Analysis of preliminary reports made to CCO by Force Commanders and their Staff on Operation ‘Jubilee’ 20th August 1942, Room 21, Montagu House,” 9.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Report on Events on 19 Aug 42, of Dieppe of A. Coy, Royal Marine Commando by Capt. P.W.C. Hellings,” 1.
Jacques Mordal [pseud.], Dieppe: The Dawn of Decision (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1962), 211.
“Report No. 108,” 50–51.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Report on Events on 19 Aug 42, of Dieppe of 12 Pl. X. Coy and half Coy H.Q. by Captain J.C. Manners, R.M.,” 1.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Jubilee: RM Commando—19 August 1942,” 1–2.
Neillands, 242.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Statement of O.C. ‘B’ Company, Captain R.K. Devereaux,” 1.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Jubilee: RM Commando,” 2.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/337, “Report by Manners,” 1.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Statement by Cpl. Harvey,” 1.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Jubilee: RM Commando,” 2.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Memorandum of Interview with L/Sgt. G.A. Hickson, 7 Fd Coy, RCE, 13 Oct. 42,” 4.
“Report No. 89,” 24–29.
21 Pretty Shaky All Around
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee’—Enclosure No. 3 to the Naval Force Commander’s No. NPJ.0221/92 of 30th August, 1942,” 14.
Quentin Reynolds, Dress Rehearsal: The Story of Dieppe (Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943), 167.
Ibid., 181–82.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee’—Enclosure,” 14.
“Report No. 159, Additional Information on Planning,” Appendix A, CMHQ, DHH, DND, 4.
Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 198.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee’—Enclosure,” 14.
Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 429.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/336, “Report by Military Force Commander—Operation ‘Jubilee,’” 2.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Naval Force Commander’s Narrative,” 5.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Narrative of Experiences at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42 by Lt.-Col. R.R. Labatt, OC, RHLI,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 8–9.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Force Commander on the Combined Operation Against Dieppe—August 19th, 1942,” 10.
Norman L.R. Franks, Greatest Air Battle: Dieppe, 19th August 1942 (London: William Kimber, 1979), 58.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Force Commander,” 10.
Michael Schoeman, “Air Umbrella—Dieppe,” Military History Journal, vol. 1, no. 5 (Dec. 1969), accessed Feb. 11, 2012, samilitaryhistory.org/vol015ms.html.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Force Commander,” 27.
Ibid., 11.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/333, “Multiple reports,” 129–30.
Ibid., 124–26.
Atkin, 202–03.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Force Commander,” 15.
“Lloyd Vernon ‘Chad’ Chadburn,” accessed Feb. 13, 2012, www.acesofww2.com /Canada/aces/chadburn.htm.
Jim and John Maffre, interview by Serge Durflinger, Ottawa, Aug. 13, 1999, Oral History Project Collection, CWM.
“Blair Dalzell ‘Dal’ Russel,” Canadian Aces of World War II, accessed Feb. 13, 2012, www.acesofww2.com/Canada/aces/russel.htm.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Force Commander,” 12–13.
Reynolds, 160–62.
“Report No. 108, The Attack on the Main Beaches,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 56.
Schoeman.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Force Commander,” 3.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Detailed Narrative,” 6.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Force Commander,” 12.
Franks, 100.
The R.C.A.F. Overseas (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1944), 63–64.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/233, “Report by the Air Force Commander,” 2.
Ibid., 30.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Detailed Narrative,” 14.
Atkin, 211.
“Report No. 108,” 73.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/239, “Major G.H. Stockley, R.M. Report on Operation Jubilee,” 2.
Atkin, 211.
“Report No. 108,” 72.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/335, Appendix V, “Interview with Sub-Lieut. J.E. O’Rourke” 13–14.
Ibid., “Report by Lieutenant J.E. Koyl,” 8–9.
22 Very Heartbreaking
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” [mistitled file containing Essex Scottish accounts], 232C2.(D57), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, 1.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Memorandum of Interview with CSM J. Stewart,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 2.
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry War Diary, August 1942, Appendix 18, RG24, LAC, 18.
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), 3–4.
“Op ‘Jubilee’—Courts of Inquiry,” 232C2.(D83), vol. 10875, box 252, RG24, LAC, 58.
“Report No. 108, The Attack on the Main Beaches,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 57–58.
“Report No. 90, The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Further Personal Stories of Participants,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 33.
“Op ‘Jubilee’—Courts of Inquiry,” 58.
W.R. Freasby, ed., Official History of the Canadian Medical Services, 1939–1945, vol. 1, Organization and Campaigns (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1956), 116.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 14.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on the Dieppe Raid on 19th August, 1942 by Lt. P. Ross (RNVR),” 4–5.
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), 205.
“Victoria Cross—Second World War, 1939–1945: John Weir Foote,” accessed Feb. 16, 2012, www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/vcg-gcv/bio/foote-jw-eng.asp.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 14.
Ibid., 30.
Brown Sr., Brown Jr., and Greenhous, 208.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 36.
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.
South Saskatchewan Regiment War Diary, August 1942, Appendix 9, RG24, LAC, 6.
“Report No. 89, The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Personal Stories of Participants,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 78.
Edmondson and Edmondson, 55–56.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal account (S Sask R),” 232C2.(D66), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 4.
Ibid., 9.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on Dieppe Raid by Lieut. L.R. MacIlveen,” 2.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 232C2.(D65), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 1.
Norman H. Ross, interview by Chris Main, July 20 and Aug. 16, 1979, UVICSC.
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 187-88.
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,” 14.
“Report No. 101, General Outline and Flank Attacks,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 115–18.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Memorandum of Interview with Major A.T. Law,” 4.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 11–13.
Ibid., 141.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Statement of Company Sgt-Major G. Gouk, ‘B’ Coy, Camerons of C,” 1–2.
Wallace Reyburn, Glorious Chapter: The Canadians at Dieppe (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1943), 114–25.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accounts (Cam Highrs of Cda),” 155–56.
Ibid., 163.
Ross interview.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on Dieppe by Pte. Story, V.A.,” 1.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 9, 12.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report by MacIlveen,” 2.
“Report No. 89,” 79.
Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, interview, August 21, 1997, Heroes Remember, accessed Dec. 7, 2011, www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/hrp/alpha_results/123.
John Edmondson, interview by Chris Bell, June 6, Aug. 4 and 12, 1982, UVICSC.
Edmondson and Edmondson, 57.
South Saskatchewan War Diary, Appendix 9, 15.
Ibid., 17.
“Report No. 89,” 79.
Merritt interview.
“Report No. 101,” 117–18.
Ibid., 122–23.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 389.
23 Sorry, Lads
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Narrative of Experiences at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42 by Lt.-Col. R.R. Labatt, OC, RHLI,” 592.011(D3), DHH, DND, 10.
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), 4.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on Approach, Landing and Subsequent Events Dieppe by Brig. W. Southam,” 4.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Report on the Dieppe Raid on 19th August, 1942 by Lt. P. Ross (RNVR),” 5.
“Report No. 89, Historical Section CMHQ: The Operation at Dieppe, 19 Aug 42: Personal Stories of Participants,” DHH, DND, 33–34.
Ibid., 60–61.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Southam, 4–5.
Bennett, 5.
“Op ‘Jubilee’ Personal Accounts (Fus M.R.),” 232C2.(D55), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 39.
Dollard Ménard and C.B. Wall, “The meaning of bravery,” in The Canadians at War, 1939/45, vol. 1 (Montreal: Reader’s Digest Assoc. [Canada], 1969), 197.
“Report No. 89,” 29.
Ménard and Wall, 197.
“Report No. 108, The Attack on the Main Beaches,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 68.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE)” [mistitled file containing Essex Scottish accounts], 232C2.(D57), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, 15–20.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/327, “Canadians at Dieppe: Awards for Gallantry Citations,” 9.
“‘Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal accts (RCE),” 26.
Essex Scottish Regiment War Diary, August 1942, Appendix vi, rg24, lac, 3.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 389.
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry War Diary, August 1942, Appendix 18, rg24, lac, 36.
Ibid., 28.
Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 233.
Royal Hamilton War Diary, Appendix 18, 18.
“Report No. 89,” 85–86.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Labatt,” 10–12.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Southam,” 4–5.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Labatt,” 12–13.
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,” 16.
“Report No. 108,” 70.
“Op ‘Jubilee,’ Personal Accounts (14 Cdn A Tk Bn),” 232c2.(d56), vol. 10873, box 252, rg24, lac, 8.
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, mg30 e463, lac, 188.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Naval Force Commander’s Narrative,” 6.
“Report No. 108,” 70.
TNA:PRO ADM 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee’—Enclosure,” 16.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 189–90.
Quentin Reynolds, Dress Rehearsal: The Story of Dieppe (Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943), 220–21.
“Report No. 108,” 56.
tna:pro adm 199/107, “Operation ‘Jubilee’—Enclosure,” 16.
“Report No. 108,” 71–72.
Ibid., 55.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 190–91.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Southam, 5.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 396–97.
Bennett, 5.
“Personal Accounts Dieppe—Labatt, 13.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 387.
Ibid., 386.
Ibid., 388.
Ibid., 390.
“Report No. 10, Information from German War Diaries, AHQ, DHH, DND, 21–22.
Ibid., 22.
Reynolds, 242
.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 193.
W.R. Freasby, ed., Official History of the Canadian Medical Services, 1939–1945, vol. 1, Organization and Campaigns (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1956), 120–21.
Norman H. Ross, interview by Chris Main, July 20 and Aug. 16, 1979, 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), 58.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 386.
Epilogue: Dieppe in Memory
The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, “Address to the Dieppe Veterans and Prisoner’s-of-War Association, 29 September, 1973,” pamphlet in the author’s possession, 9–10.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 401.
John Mosier, Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin—The Eastern Front, 1941–1945 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 265.
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Abbreviations: adm–Admiralty Papers (u.k.). AHQ–Army Headquarters. CMHQ–Canadian Military Headquarters. CWM–Canadian War Museum. DND–Department of National Defence. DEFE–Ministry of Defence (U.K.). DHH–Director of Heritage and History. LAC–Library and Archives Canada. PRO–Public Records office (U.K.). TNA–The National Archives of the U.K. UVICSC–University of Victoria Special Collections. WO–War Office (U.K.).
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