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‘You never forget’

Vets commemorate 65th anniversary of Dieppe
BY CRAIG PEARSON
STAR STAFF REPORTER

Code named Operation Jubilee, some 6,100 Allied servicemen — including 4,963 Canadians — stormed the beach at Dieppe.

The mission represented the Allied forces’ highest single day losses for the war. Only 2,200 Canadians returned to England that day. Of the 3,367 casualties, 1,946 were prisoners of war, while 907 died.

Of the 553 members of the Essex Scottish regiment who joined the raid — most from Windsor and Essex County — 105 were killed in action. Eventually 121 would make the ultimate sacrifice.

“I think about it all the time,” said Snook, a retired Heinz maintenance manager. “You never forget seeing your buddies lying dead beside you.”

Of the 432 Essex Scottish who were not killed, only 48 returned to England. The others were all captured and spent the remainder of the war in POW camps.

The Dieppe Raid

Windsor Star photo album of 2006 trip to commemorate the Dieppe Raid.