Memories of Dieppe
The Dieppe Raid
Memories of Dieppe
Transcript
Strangely enough, we knew that, through the grapevine we learned
that other people other than ourselves were going to be
involved but we didn't know for sure and the first time we
actually knew about it, was the morning of the invasion when I
got instructions to go down to Portsmouth and two of the
destroyers that were coming back from Dieppe were going to be
there and they were discharging people who were sick and people
who were wounded and so on and so forth. So we got our, had a
convoy set up and we went down to Portsmouth and took over. I
got authority to take over one of the destroyers and clean things
and move out the bodies and so on and so forth, get them anybody,
but there was nobody there that was, they were all, at that stage
this was just hours after they'd come back. It was a pretty grim
situation, there's no doubt about that. We were, see one of the
things that we were following in those days were, if a brigade,
if a unit or say three units went into action, they'd leave one
behind. So same with a brigade, if three brigades were going in,
there was always one formation left behind to form the nucleus,
of the form. So that was our situation there.
Interviewer: What effect did that tragic raid have on the morale
of the rest of the men in 2nd Infantry Division?
Well I can only say our only contact was with our own people
to say we hadn't lost, we didn't loose anybody in that parade, in
that engagement. We just considered ourselves lucky, we
didn't have to do anything about it.
Description
Mr. Robinson remembers his involvement in England during and after the Dieppe raid.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 02:40
- Person Interviewed:
- Sherwin Robinson
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Europe
- Battle/Campaign:
- Dieppe
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Calgary Highlanders
- Rank:
- Lieutenant
- Date modified: