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19th august 1942 : Opération Jubilee or the raid of hope
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.
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 (Website : Commonwealth War Graves).
11 th June 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" from Derek Lang de la 51e division and
"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)
