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Description
Colonel Merritt discusses the role that the South Saskatchewan Regiment was instructed to play in the raid on Dieppe in 1942.
Transcription
Green Beach was the beach at Pourville which was about two miles south of, of...
Interviewer: Dieppe.
Dieppe. And, we were to land at 05:50 hours I think it was. And if all had gone well, we were given objectives about two miles inland, we were to occupy this particular area behind Pourville and after a certain length of time we were all to get out and...we didn’t do it exactly as planned.
Interviewer: But the plan itself was for the various units to storm ashore on five beaches, take their objectives, stay till the next tide...
That’s right.
Interviewer: And then withdraw.
Correct.
Interviewer: There was never any thought of reinforcing that particular raid.
None whatever.
Interviewer: OK. Do you recall any directions concerning your unit securing a radar station?
Yes. There was a raidar station on the hill above Pourville and we never got there.
Interviewer: Did they ever tell you why they wanted you to take that radar station?
Well I guess you didn’t have to be told because it was part of the German equipment to raid England.
Interviewer: Was there any talk that certain parts of the equipment was to be dismantled and returned to England?
I don’t recall about dismantling and returning it, but dismantling yes.
Interviewer: As in destroy.
Yeah.