Lance-Corporal

As many wounded and dead lay on the beach, Mr. Hart expresses the sights he witnessed in this bloody battle.

Mr. Babcock retraces his training in Sydenham, Kingston and Val Cartier, and compares the Ross and Lee Infield rifles.

Mr. Smith describes the influence of too much rum on his gun crew, and a brush with the military police.

Mr. Hart shares a very proud moment where he earned the Military Medal for Bravery due to his actions that would save the lives of hundred of troops.

Little could be done at the Dieppe hospital. As German Prisoners of War, the men were loaded into train boxcars for an overnight journey to a large hospital in Rouen, France for treatment by German doctors. Mr. Gorman’s friend, Ted Broadbent, accompanied him. He speaks of his friend’s kindness to the injured, refusing to tell anyone of his own injury which eventually resulted in Broadbent’s hospitalization in Germany.

Feeling very vulnerable during the Dieppe Raid in the open space of the beach, it was decided to try to take refuge behind one of the nearby disabled tanks.

As the morning of the Dieppe Raid wore on, one of the platoons managed to enter the town of Dieppe.

Mr. Gorman continues his account of the events that took him to the beach at Dieppe, France. He’s aboard the ship Leopold sailing from a port in Southampton, England.

Mr. Smith describes competition among the machine gun crews as part of his training regimen in the war zone.

Mr. Smith discusses his return home from England.