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  2. File:Canadian POWs, Dieppe.jpg - Wikipedia

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  3. Dieppe Raid - Wikipedia

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    Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry , predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under the protection of Royal Air ...

  4. Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The regiment mobilized the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, CASF, on 1 September 1939. This unit, which served in Newfoundland from 22 June to 11 August 1940, embarked for Great Britain on 25 August 1940. Three platoons took part in the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942.

  5. Operation Jubilee order of battle - Wikipedia

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    Operation Jubilee was the Allied code name for the raid at Dieppe on the French coast on August 19, 1942. The following order of battle lists the significant military units that participated in the battle , or were available as reserve.

  6. Letter from Overseas - Wikipedia

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    The First Canadian Army led by General A.G.L. McNaughton used the training to "toughen up" the troops for a new assignment, an attack on occupied France. After the successful Bruneval Raid in February 1942, the Canadians were again in the forefront of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. Storming the beaches involved a massive operation that was ...

  7. King's Own Calgary Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The CASF unit embarked for Britain on 20 June 1941. The regiment took part in the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942 as the first unit of the Canadian Armoured Corps to go into action. The Dieppe Raid will go down in the annals of Canadian Military history as one of the most disastrous days in the history of the Canadian Forces.

  8. Joseph Gregory (sniper) - Wikipedia

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    Credited with several kills, he participated in the Dieppe Raid, where he lost an eye to a ricocheted bullet. [1] His actions earned him the Military Medal "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the combined attack on Dieppe". Attached to the battalion headquarters, Gregory had been deployed four times to find enemy snipers ...

  9. 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars)

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    It was not involved in the ill-fated Dieppe Raid on August 19, 1942, and thus avoided the heavy losses suffered that day by many other units of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. The regiment landed with its division in Normandy on July 6, 1944, one month after D-Day , and first entered combat as infantry in the ongoing Battle of Normandy .