by Mark Zuehlke
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Lt. Col. Ridley “Bob” Labatt
Royal Regiment of Canada, Lt. Col. Doug Catto
South Saskatchewan Regiment, Lt. Col. Cecil Merritt
German
Commander-in-Chief, West, Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt
Fifteenth Army, Generaloberst Kurt Haase
302nd Infantry Division, Generalleutnant Konrad Haase
Appendix B: Allied Order of Battle, Operation Jubilee
MILITARY UNITS
CANADIAN
HQ 2nd Canadian Division
Intelligence Section
Field Security Section
4th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Royal Regiment of Canada
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
Essex Scottish Regiment
5th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Three infantry platoons, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Mortar Platoon, Calgary Highlanders
6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Calgary Tank Regiment (14th Canadian Tank Battalion)
Royal Canadian Engineers
2nd Field Company
7th Field Company
11th Field Company
1st Field Park Company
2nd Road Construction Company
Mechanical Equipment Company
Other Supporting 2nd Division Detachments
Toronto Scottish Regiment (MG)
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Provost Company
Signals
3rd Light Infantry Anti-Aircraft Regiment
4th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Hussars)
11th Canadian Field Ambulance
BRITISH
No. 3 Commando
No. 4 Commando
No. 30 Commando (Assault Unit)
‘A’ Section No. 40 Commando, Royal Marines
Royal Engineers (beach gradient parties)
OTHER NATIONALS
Detachment 1st U.S. Ranger Battalion
Detachment No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando
NAVAL FORCE
Destroyers
HMS Calpe (HQ ship)
HMS Fernie (2nd HQ ship)
HMS Albrighton
HMS Berkeley
HMS Bleasdale
HMS Brocklesby
HMS Garth
ORP Slazak
Sloop
HMS Alresford
Motor Gunboat
HMS Locust
Minesweeping Flotillas
9th Minesweeping Flotilla (8 ships)
13th Minesweeping Flotilla (8 ships)
Landing Ships
HMS Glengyle—LSI(Large)
HMS Queen Emma—LSI(Medium)
HMS Princess Beatrix—LSI(Medium)
HMS Duke of Wellington—LSI(Small)
HMS Prince Albert—LSI(Small)
HMS Princess Astrid—LSI(Small)
HMS Invicta—LSI(Small)
HMS Prince Charles—LSI(Small)
HMS Prince Leopold—LSI(Small)
Landing Craft on LSIS Numbered:
60 Landing Craft Assault (LCA)
8 Landing Craft Support (LCS)
7 Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM)
First Flotilla Group 5 (Yellow Beach)
Landing Craft, Personnel—R-Boats Nos. 1, 80, 81, 85, 86, 87, 95, 118, 128, 145, 157
Second Flotilla Group 6 (Green Beach)
R-Boats Nos. 19, 88, 94, 119, 124, 125, 129, 147, 156
Fourth Flotilla Group 7 (Floating Reserve)
R-Boats Nos. 28, 53, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 186, 187, 188, 192, 196, 199, 212
Fifth Flotilla Group 7 (Floating Reserve)
R-Boats Nos. 31, 45, 155, 163, 165, 166, 167, 208, 209, 210, 614
Sixth Flotilla Group 6 (Green Beach)
R-Boats Nos. 127, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 153, 158
Seventh Flotilla Group 6 (Green Beach)
R-Boats Nos. 83, 84, 99, 101, 102, 104, 110, 113, 159, 160
Twenty-fourth Flotilla Group 5 (Yellow Beach)
R-Boats Nos. 3, 4, 13, 15, 23, 24, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 79, 115
Second Landing Craft Tank (LCT) Flotilla
LCT Nos. 121 (LCT5), 124 (LCT7), 125 (LCT8), 126 (LCT4), 127 (LCT2), 145 (LCT1), 163 (LCT6), 165 (LCT10), 166 (LCT9), 169 (LCT3)
Fourth Landing Craft Tank (LCT) Flotilla
LCT Nos. 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 318, 325, 360, 361, 376
ESCORTING CRAFT
First Landing Craft Flak (LCT) Flotilla
LCF Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Motor Gun Boats (MGB)
MGB Nos. 50, 51, 52, 57, 312, 315, 316, 317, 320, 321, 323, 326
Steam Gun Boats (SGB)
SGB Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9
Motor Launches (ML)
ML Nos. 114, 120, 123, 171, 187, 189, 190, 191, 193, 194, 208, 214, 230, 246, 291, 292, 309, 343, 344, 346
Free French Chasseurs
Nos. 5, 10, 13, 14, 41, 42, 43
AIR FORCE UNITS
RAF Fighter Command No. 11 Group
Spitfire Squadrons
19, 41, 64, 65, 66, 71, 81, 91, 111, 118, 121, 122, 124, 129, 130, 131, 133, 154, 165, 222, 232, 242, 302, 303, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 317, 331, 332, 340, 350, 400 (RCAF) 401 (RCAF), 402 (RCAF), 403(RCAF), 411 (RCAF), 412 (RCAF), 414 (RCAF), 416 (RCAF), 418 (RCAF) [two aircraft only], 485, 501, 602, 610, 611, 616
Hurricane Squadrons
3, 32, 43, 87, 174, 175, 245, 253
Typhoon Squadrons
56, 266, 609
Boston Squadrons
88, 107, 226, 418, 605
Blenheim Squadrons
13, 614
Mustang Squadrons
26, 239, 400, 414
Beaufighter Squadron
141
USAAF 97th Bombardment Group
B-17 Squadrons
340, 341, 342, 414
Notes
Abbreviations: ADM–Admiralty Papers (U.K.). AHQ–Army Headquarters. CMHQ–Canadian Military Headquarters. CWM–Canadian War Museum. DND–Department of National Defence. DEFE–Ministry of Defence (U.K.). DHH–Director of Heritage and History. LAC–Library and Archives Canada. PRO–Public Records office (U.K.). TNA–The National Archives of the U.K. UVICSC–University of Victoria Special Collections. WO–War Office (U.K.).
Preface
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 387–89.
Introduction: A Crescendo of Activity
John Mosier, Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin—The Eastern Front, 1941–1945 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 200–01.
Quentin Reynolds, Dress Rehearsal: The Story of Dieppe (Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943), 111.
Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, 1939–1943: A study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke (London: Collins, 1957), 360.
Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe (London: Collins, 1952), 101.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 311.
Gordon A. Harrison, Cross-Channel Attack: United States Army in World War II; The European Theater of Operations (Washington: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1993), 6–8.
Ibid., 9–10.
Ibid., 9.
Stacey, Six Years of Wa
r, 311.
Robin Neillands, The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition (London: Aurum Press, 2005), 71.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 311–12.
Wilmot, 103.
Harrison, 12–13.
Bryant, 354–60.
Neillands, 76.
Wilmot, 104.
Harrison, 18.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 313.
1 A Boldly Imaginative Group
The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, “Address to the Dieppe Veterans and Prisoner’s-of-War Association, 29 September, 1973,” pamphlet in the author’s possession, 2.
Combined Operations: The Official Story of the Commandos (New York: Macmillan, 1943), 49.
Robin Neillands, The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition (London: Aurum Press, 2005), 80.
Quentin Reynolds, Dress Rehearsal: The Story of Dieppe (Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943), 17–18.
Ibid., 14–15.
Neillands, 34.
Reynolds, 18–22.
Combined Operations, 26.
Ibid., 4–5.
Ibid., 6–7.
Neillands, 89–90.
Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, 1939–1943: A study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke (London: Collins, 1957), 370–71.
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 110–111.
Ibid., 106.
Ibid., 112.
Ibid., 106.
Ibid., 112.
“COHQ–War Cabinet–Yalta,” Combined Operations, accessed Oct. 3, 2011, www.combinedops.com/zCOHQ.htm.
Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker, Dieppe: Tragedy to Triumph; A Firsthand and Revealing Critical Account of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II (Whitby, ON: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992), 90.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 113.
“Military Intelligence Service, Special Series No. 1, August 9, 1942: Commando Operations–Section I. Vaagso (Norway) Raid,” Lone Sentry, accessed Sept. 27, 2011, www.lonesentry.com/manuals/commandos/vaagso-norway-raid.html.
Combined Operations, 70.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 117.
Combined Operations, 70–72.
Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 45–46.
Combined Operations, 73.
Ibid., 77–78.
Ibid., 88–99.
Ibid., 99.
2 For the Sake of Raiding
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 118.
“Report No. 159, Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Additional Information on Planning,” Appendix A, CMHQ, DHH, DND, 2.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 324.
“Report No. 159,” Appendix A, 5.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 324.
The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, “Address to the Dieppe Veterans and Prisoner’s-of-War Association, 29 September, 1973,” pamphlet in the author’s possession, 2.
Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 61.
Ibid.
Brian Loring Villa, Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989), 168.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 118.
Mountbatten, 2.
“Report No. 159,” Appendix A, 1.
Villa, 170.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 106.
Nigel Hamilton, Monty: The Making of a General, 1887–1942 (London: Coronet, 1984), 517.
Robertson, 61.
“Report No. 153, Operation ‘Jubilee’: New Light on Early Planning,” Appendix A, ” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 1.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 151–52.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/324, “Operation ‘Jubilee’: Lecture to Staff College, Notes for CCO,” 1.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 154.
Hamilton, 516.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 152–53.
Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan London, 1980), 11.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 153.
Ibid., 153–54.
Hamilton, 521–22.
“Report No. 100, The Preliminaries of the Operation,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 13.
Mountbatten, 2–3.
“Report No. 153,” Appendix IV, 1.
Ibid., Appendix III, 2–3.
Mountbatten, 3.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 154.
“Report No. 100,” 14.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/323, “Operation ‘Jubilee’: Lecture,” 2.
Atkin, 12.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/550, “Inter-Service Topographical Department–18 April, 1952, Appendix 21: Tank Exits at Dieppe,” 1–2.
Ibid., “Appendix 22: The Rivers Scie, Saane, Arques, Bethune, Varenne, and Eaulne,” 1–2.
Ibid., “Operation Rutter, Intelligence Reports,” 1–4.
Combined Operations: The Official Story of the Commandos (New York: Macmillan, 1943), 110.
“Letter from Mountbatten to Guy Simonds, Feb. 4, 1969, Hughes-Hallett fonds, MG30 E463, LAC, 2.
3 A Fantastic Conception
Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 83–84.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 329.
Paul Douglas Dickson, A Thoroughly Canadian General: A Biography of General H.D.G. Crerar (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 203.
Ibid., 193.
“Report No. 87, Situation of the Canadian Military Forces in the United Kingdom, Autumn, 1942: II, Recent Changes in Commands and Staffs,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 2.
Dickson, 192.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 308.
J.L. Granatstein, The Generals: The Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War (Toronto: Stoddart, 1993), 55–67.
Ibid., 70.
C.P. Stacey, The Canadian Army, 1939–1945: An Official Historical Summary (Ottawa: King’s Printer, 1948), 47.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 96.
Dickson, 182.
Granatstein, 86.
Ibid., 101.
Ibid., 98.
Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker, Dieppe: Tragedy to Triumph, A Firsthand and Revealing Critical Account of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II (Whitby, ON: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992), 72.
Dominick Graham, The Price of Command: A Biography of General Guy Simonds (Toronto: Stoddart, 1993), 66.
Dickson, 185–86.
Granatstein, 186–87.
Dickson, 186–88.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 74.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 308.
Ibid., 309–10.
Granatstein, 71.
“Report No. 100, Operation ‘Jubilee’: The Preliminaries of the Operation,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 21–23.
Robertson, 85.
“Report No. 100,” 23–24.
Ibid., 24–26.
Robertson, 88.
Stacey, Six War Years, 280–82.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 95.
“Dieppe, 1942: Lecture Notes, Combined Services Raid on Dieppe, 19 Aug 42 by Brig. CC Mann, GS, I Cdn Corps,” 222C1.011(D1), vol. 10772, box 201, RG24, LAC, 3.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 96.
“Report No. 100,” 27.
Robertson, 93.
“Report No. 100,” 27–28.
4 Of Considerable Difficulty
“Report No. 100, Operation ‘Jubilee’: The Preliminaries of the Operation,” CMHQ, DHH, DND,
15–16.
Ibid., 10–12.
Brereton Greenhous, Dieppe, Dieppe (Montreal: Art Global, 1992), 46.
Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 94–95.
“Report No. 100,” 29–31.
Robertson, 96.
Bernard Law, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. (London: Collins, 1958), 77.
Robin Neillands, The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition (London: Aurum Press, 2005), 95.
Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, 1939–1943: a study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke (London: Collins, 1957), 372.
Robertson, 97.
“Trafford Leigh-Mallory,” World War II Database, accessed Nov. 2, 2011, ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=125.
Robertson, 97–98.
“Report No. 100,” 31.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 244.
D.J. Goodspeed, Battle Royal: A History of the Royal Regiment of Canada, 1862–1962 (Toronto: Royal Regt. of Canada Assoc., 1962), 384–85.