Regiment Moves Into Town of Dieppe
The Dieppe Raid
Regiment Moves Into Town of Dieppe
Transcript
The Colonel was told that this platoon had got in see,
so we were asked to relay this message to the Calpay.
So Bill did and ...
he said that a platoon had landed in, had got in to Dieppe.
Well it got twisted
and the message, it ended up in the Calpay
was that the Essex Scottish had penetrated into Dieppe.
Well the FMR’s were laying off shore and this is daylight,
and the FMR’s, what they were supposed to do
was to come in and take up our position on the beach
we were supposed to go through Dieppe and
then we were supposed to meet another regiment
from the 6th Brigade.
think it was the South Saskatchewans that Merritt had
and anyway, and they were to come through Dieppe
and then load on and out
and then we were to fight a rear action and get back.
Well the FMR’s came in
and they were just shot right out of the water
it was in broad daylight and whatnot
and anyway, things went on.
Ammunition started running low and
there was a lot of casualties and that.
But I don’t know, it just seemed
that the mind was blocked out to this stuff, you know.
Bradley, he stuck with the radio
and I helped him as much as I could,
but I couldn’t help him a helluva lot
and then finally around,
I think it was around 1 o’clock,
they said there was going to be a cease fire
about two I think it was.
So Bradley told me this and I said,
“Take your rifle and smash that damn thing. And...
and when the cease fire goes in,” I said, “you smash it.”
Description
As the morning of the Dieppe Raid wore on, one of the platoons managed to enter the town of Dieppe.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 02:37
- Person Interviewed:
- Donald Gorman
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Europe
- Battle/Campaign:
- Dieppe
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Essex Scottish Regiment
- Rank:
- Lance-Corporal
- Occupation:
- Signalman
- Date modified: