Ten times worse than the Charge of the Light Brigade: the Dieppe Raid disaster of 1942
The hare-brained Dieppe Raid was a massacre – and all for the sake of Mountbatten’s ego, says Patrick Bishop in his superb Operation Jubilee
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The hare-brained Dieppe Raid was a massacre – and all for the sake of Mountbatten’s ego, says Patrick Bishop in his superb Operation Jubilee
The war had been over for 13 years when a group of former comrades, now scattered around the country, opened the morning post to find a letter from their old chief, Louis Mountbatten.
The Coastal Forces were established in 1916 with the aim of carrying out torpedo raids.
Dozens of Barrie-area Highschool students walked 5,000 metres on Thursday to honour the soldiers involved in the Dieppe Raid.
Almost 80 years after Windsor’s Pte. George Alfred Dixon died on the beach at Dieppe, his Memorial Cross found its way back home.