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OPERATION JUBILEE AUGUST 19TH 1942 or the raid of hope  (Editions Bertout)

Photo Monument in Sainte Marguerite

Lord Lovat  and the n° 813 arsenal : Landed on Quiberville and Varengeville beaches (code name : orange ) . On a dark night…  Lord Lovat and n° 4 commando landed at 2.48 am  with the aim of destroying the n° 813 arsenal... this was the only successful mission of this operation (Dieppe n’aurait jamais du avoir lieu / Dieppe should never have happened "by Pierre Vennat Meridan Editions")

The Canadian War Cemetery in Dieppe « les Vertus » has  944 tombs of which  189 are unidentified

  • 697 Canadian
  • 229 English
  • 2 Australian
  • 2 French 
  • 6 Polish
  • 8 New Zealand
The research carried out by Sirs Raillot and Anfray de Dieppe succeeded: 6 unknown soldiers whose 1 French could be identified in 2006. Other research continues.
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 THE MONTH OF JUNE 1940
The month of June 1940 is renowned for being the most difficult of the Second World War. A large number of R.A.F. airmen lost their lives. Their bodies were picked up from the beaches by the German Authorities often after several months floating in the sea. They now lie at rest in our French soil. Some bodies have never been identified. A small Commonwealth War Graves plaque is placed at the entrace of each cemetery sheltering such graves (Commonwealth War Graves).
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 JUNE 11TH  1940 or the ultimate battle of the 51St Scottish division. On the heights above Saint-Valéry en Caux , you can visit a monument dedicated to the 51St division.
The cemetery of Saint-Valéry en Caux consists of Scottish graves and French graves . If you read the graves you can realize that most of these men were killed in June 1940.
Reading material : (Réf. "Merci la France" de Derek Lang de la 51e division et "Un écossais dans le maquis" de David Philp aux éditions Bertout)
www.batailles.net  : Rommel's diaries.

New book from Raphaël Distante (Editions Bénévent) Saint Valéry en Caux 1940 la seconde guerre mondiale, la 51e Highland Division, De Gaulle et Rommel)

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