Royal Regiment Honoured at Dieppe
The Dieppe Raid
Royal Regiment Honoured at Dieppe
Transcript
Then we started to clear the ports along the coast of France
right up to Dieppe from Normandy up to Dieppe. We were given
the privilege because our regiment was one of the, had the most
casualties 1942 raid and so the three regiments. The way they
work is there is a brigade. A brigade usually consists of three
regiments and there was the Royal Regiment, there was the Essex
Scots and Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, that was a Brigade.
And they were the ones that took the bad beatings in Dieppe in
1942. So we were given the privilege of clearing the port this
time around, of course, when we finished there we on up, the
rest get back into Holland.
Description
Mr. Walsh discusses why the Royal Regiment of Canada, with two other regiments, was selected to clear Dieppe based on the fact that it was decimated during the original Dieppe raid.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 1:00
- Person Interviewed:
- Graham Walsh
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Battle/Campaign:
- Dieppe
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Royal Regiment of Canada
- Occupation:
- Tank Driver
- Date modified: