by Mark Zuehlke
Stacey, Six Years of War, 334.
Goodspeed, 385.
Sandy Antal and Kevin Shackleton, Duty Nobly Done: The Official History of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (Windsor, ON: Walkerville, 2006), 389–90.
Cent ans d’histoire d’un régiment canadien-francais: Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, 1869–1969 (Montreal: Éditions Du Jour, 1971), 125.
“Report No. 100,” 31–32.
“Report No. 65, Situation of the Canadian Military Forces in the United Kingdom, Spring 1942: Recent Changes in Commands and Staffs,” CMHQ,DHH, DND, 2.
Cent ans d’histoire, 123.
Robertson, 28–29.
“Lt-Col A.C. Gostling Killed Leading Cameron Highlanders,” Toronto Star, Aug. 22, 1942, Veteran Affairs Canada, accessed Nov. 4, 2011, www.veterans.gc.ca /eng/collections/virtualmem/photoview/2317090/55185.
R.W. Queen-Hughes, Whatever Men Dare: A History of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, 1936–1960 (Winnipeg: Bulman Bros., 1960), 52.
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Robertson, 24.
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John Edmondson, interview by Chris Bell, June 6, August 4 and 12, 1982, UVICSC.
“Lieutenant Colonel John Gilby Andrews,” in Onward I: The Informal History of the Calgary Regiment, 14th Canadian Armoured Regiment, ed. Dick Maltby and Jessie Maltby (Vancouver: 50/14 Veterans’ Assoc., 1989), 1.
5 Trial and Error
“Report No. 100, Operation ‘Jubilee’: The Preliminaries of the Operation,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 33.
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), 125–26.
Norman H. Ross, interview by Chris Main, July 20 and Aug. 16, 1979, UVICSC.
Cent ans d’histoire d’un régiment canadien-français: Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, 1869–1969 (Montreal: Éditions Du Jour, 1971), 129.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 126.
“Conversations with Dick Maltby, August 1989,” UVICSC.
A.J. Kerry and W.A. McDill, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol. 2 (Ottawa: Military Engineers Assoc., 1966), 98.
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Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 47.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 124–25.
Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 107.
Kingsley Brown Sr., Kingsley Brown Jr., and Brereton Greenhous, Semper Paratus: The History of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment), 1862–1977 (Hamilton: RHLI Historical Assoc., 1977), 184.
Brereton Greenhous, Dieppe, Dieppe (Montreal: Art Global, 1992), 50–51.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 125–26.
W.A.B. Douglas, Roger Sarty, and Michael Whitby, A Blue Water Navy: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1943–1945, vol. II, part 2 (St. Catharine’s, ON: Vanwell Publishing, 2007), 107.
“Report No. 100,” 33–34.
John Edmondson, interview by Chris Bell, June 6, Aug. 4 and 12, 1982, UVICSC.
D.J. Goodspeed, Battle Royal: A History of the Royal Regiment of Canada, 1862–1962 (Toronto: Royal Regt. of Canada Assoc., 1962), 386.
“Report No. 100,” 34.
Edmondson interview.
Brown, Brown, and Greenhous, 184.
John Marteinson and Michael R. McNorgan, The Royal Armoured Corps: An Illustrated History (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000), 142.
“Conversations with Dick Maltby.”
Kerry and McDill, 98–99.
“Engineer Training Report: Exercise ‘Rutter’ and Operation ‘Jubilee,’” Appendix IV, 232C2.033(D4), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 1.
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 155–56.
“Engineer Training Report,” Appendix 9, 1–2.
Kerry and McDill, 99–100.
Edmondson interview.
Ross interview.
Norm Bowen, interview by A.E. “Tony” Delamere, 28 Sept. 2000, Ottawa, Oral History Project Collection, CWM.
Ross interview.
“Report No. 100,” 35.
Ross interview.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 156–58.
Brian Loring Villa, Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989), 182.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 158.
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), 396–408.
“Report No. 153, Operation ‘Jubilee’: New Light on Early Planning,” Appendix III, CMHQ, DHH, DND, 1–2.
“Report No. 100,” 19.
“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, 2.
Robertson, 129.
“Report No. 153,” Appendix III, 3.
Bernard Law, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. (London: Collins, 1958), 76.
6 These are Anxious Days
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 161–63.
Norman H. Ross, interview by Chris Main, July 20 and Aug. 16, 1979, UVICSC.
“Report No. 100, Operation ‘Jubilee’: The Preliminaries of the Operation,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 35–36.
“Yukon I,” 232C2(D54), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 5–6.
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“Yukon I,” 5–6.
Ibid., 7–8.
Robin Neillands, The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition (London: Aurum Press, 2005), 105–06.
Ross interview.
“Yukon I,” 5.
Ross interview.
“Yukon I,” 6.
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“Yukon 1,” 7.
“Report No. 100,” 37–38.
Neillands, 96.
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, 5.
“Report No. 100,” 38.
R.W. Queen-Hughes, Whatever Men Dare: A History of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, 1936–1960 (Winnipeg: Bulman Bros., 1960), 59.
Royal Regiment of Canada War Diary, June 1942, RG24, LAC, June 23 entry.
Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord (Toronto: Macmillan, 1945), 301.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 164–65.
7 What a Blow!
“Report No. 100, Operation ‘Jubilee’: The Preliminaries of the Operation,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 38–44.
Norman H. Ross, interview by Chris Main, July 20 and Aug. 16, 1979, UVICSC.
“Report No. 100,” 48–49.
Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord (Toronto: Macmillan, 1945), 302.
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), 136–39.
“Report No. 100,” 49.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 138–39.
Ross interview.
Sandy Antal and Kevin R. Shackleton, Duty Nobly Done: The Official History of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (Windsor, ON: Walkerville, 2006), 392.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 139.
Munro, 303.
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 165–66.
“Report No. 159, Operation ‘Jubilee’: Additional Information on Planning,” Appendix A, CMHQ, DHH, DND, 3.
“Report No. 100,” 42.
Ibid., 44–48.
Munro, 303.
Antal and Shackleton, 392.
Ross interview.
R.W. Queen-Hughes, Whatever Men Dare: A History of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, 1936–1960 (Winnipeg: Bulman Bros., 1960), 60.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 166.
Kingsley Brown Sr., Kingsley Brown Jr., and Brereton Greenhous, Semper Paratus: The History of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment), 1862–1977 (Hamilton: RHLI Historical Assoc., 1977), 185.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 139.
D.J. Goodspeed, Battle Royal: A History of the Royal Regiment of Canada, 1862–1962 (Toronto: Royal Regt. of Canada Assoc., 1962), 386.
Ross interview.
Hughes-Hallett memoir, 166.
Goodspeed, 386.
“Report No. 100,” 50.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 169.
“Report No. 100,” 50.
“Report No. 153, Operation ‘Jubilee’: New Light on Early Planning,” Appendix IV, CMHQ, DHH, DND, 3.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 169.
Queen-Hughes, 61.
“Report No. 100,” 51.
Goodspeed, 387.
Ross interview.
Munro, 305–06.
8 A Brainwave
Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 163.
Ibid., 166–67.
“Report No. 100, Operation ‘Jubilee’: The Preliminaries of the Operation,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 52.
Bernard Law, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. (London: Collins, 1958), 75–77.
“Report No. 100,” 52.
Ibid., 54–55.
Nigel Hamilton, Monty: The Making of a General, 1887–1942 (London: Coronet, 1984), 524–25.
Montgomery, 76.
Hamilton, 526–27.
J. Hughes-Hallett, “The Mounting of Raids,” Royal United Service Institution Journal, vol. 95 (Feb.–Nov., 1950), 585.
“Report No. 159, Operation ‘Jubilee,’ Additional Information on Planning,” Appendix A, CMHQ, DHH, DND, 3.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 340.
Brian Loring Villa, Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989), 186–87.
“Report No. 159,” Appendix A, 3.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 342.
Hughes-Hallett, “Mounting of Raids,” 585.
Robertson, 169.
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, 6.
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), 420.
Mountbatten address, 6.
Winston Churchill, The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 (London: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), 444.
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), 185.
Villa, 194.
Robin Neillands, The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition (London: Aurum Press, 2005), 112.
Robertson, 172.
“Report No. 159,” Appendix A, 3.
“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, 6.
Villa, 198.
Mountbatten address, 7.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 186.
Mountbatten address, 7.
Villa, 198.
Montgomery, 76.
Hamilton, 515.
“Report No. 100,” 60–61.
Robertson, 172.
“Report No. 100,” 57.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 343.
Robertson, 173.
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 167–68.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report on the Dieppe Raid, 1942,” 8.
“Report No. 100,” 65.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/551, “Combined Report,” 8.
“Report No. 100,” 64–66.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 344.
“Report No. 100,” 58–59.
Ibid., 60–61.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 341.
“Report No. 159,” Appendix B, 1–3.
H. Paul Jeffers, Command of Honor: General Lucien Truscott’s Path to Victory in World War II (New York: NAL Caliber, 2008), 64–69.
Whitaker and Whitaker, 187–88.
“Report No. 159,” Appendix A, 4.
9 Fraught with Alarming Warnings
“Brigadier The Lord Lovat,” The Pegasus Archive, accessed Dec. 12, 2011, www.pegasusarchive.org/normandy/lord_lovat.htm.
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Lord Lovat, March Past: A Memoir (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979), 231–37.
Ibid., 238–40.
Ronald Atkin, Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980), 42.
Lovat, March Past, 241–42.
Jim DeFelice, Rangers at Dieppe: The First Combat Action of U.S. Army Rangers in World War II (New York: Berkley Caliber, 2008), 86–89.
Ibid., 111.
D.J. Goodspeed, Battle Royal: A History of the Royal Regiment of Canada, 1862–1962 (Toronto: Royal Regt. of Canada Assoc., 1962), 387–88.
Kingsley Brown Sr., Kingsley Brown Jr., and Brereton Greenhous, Semper Paratus: The History of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment), 1862–1977 (Hamilton: RHLI Historical Assoc., 1977), 191.
R.W. Queen-Hughes, Whatever Men Dare: A History of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, 1936–1960 (Winnipeg: Bulman Bros., 1960), 62.
C.P. Stacey, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, vol. 1 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1957), 342.
John Hughes-Hallett, unpublished memoir, MG30 E463, LAC, 169–171.
“Dieppe Raid—1942” file, “Op ‘Jubilee’ 19 Aug 43 Combined Plan, Capt. H. Hallett, Maj-Gen JH Roberts, Air Marshal TL Leigh-Mallory, Operation Jubilee: Instructions for Passage through Enemy Mined Area,” 225C1.013(D6), vol. 10796, box 213, RG24, LAC, 1–3.
“Report No. 159, Operation ‘Jubilee’: Additional Information on Planning,” Appendix A, CMHQ, DHH, DND, 4.
“ ‘Jubilee’ M
iscellaneous, Special ‘Jubilee’ Instructions,” 232C2(D52), vol. 10873, box 252, RG24, LAC, 2.
Terence Robertson, Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory (London: Pan Books, 1965), 198–99.
Headquarters, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division (G Branch) War Diary, August 1942, RG24, LAC, n.p.
th Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, August 1942, Appendix, “4 CDN. INF. BDE Combined Ops. TEWT: Exercise Foothold,” RG24, LAC, 1.
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), 440.
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), 227.
th Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, August 1944, RG24, LAC, 5.
Sandy Antal and Kevin Shackleton, Duty Nobly Done: The Official History of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (Windsor, ON: Walkerville, 2006), 394.
“Dieppe—The Plans,” Royal Regt. of Canada Assoc., accessed Dec. 15, 2011, www.rregtc-assoc.ca/Dieppe%20Plans%20.html.
th Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 5.
“Dieppe Raid—1942” file, “Op ‘Jubilee’ 19 Aug 43 Combined Plan, Capt. H. Hallett, Maj-Gen JH Roberts, Air Marshal TL Leigh-Mallory, ‘Withdrawal Plan Appendix F, sketch maps with code words,’ ” 225C1.013(D6), vol. 10796, box 213, RG24, LAC, 1–13.
“Report No. 101, General Outline and Flank Attacks,” CMHQ, DHH, DND, 1–7.
“Report No. 159,” Appendix A, 4.
“Report No. 101,” 7–8.
“Dieppe Raid—1942” file, “Operation Jubilee: Naval Operation Order No. 1,” 225C1.013(D6), vol. 10796, box 213, RG24, LAC, 1–6.
Ibid., “Orders for Withdrawal of Troops and Return Passage, (J.N.O.6)” 1.
Ibid., Appendix A to “J.N.O.6,” 1.
TNA:PRO DEFE 2/324, “Operation ‘Jubilee’: Lecture to Staff College, Notes for CCO,” 6–7.
Stacey, Six Years of War, 348.
“Op ‘Jubilee’ Reports, Air Force,” 232C2(D5), vol. 10870, box 250, RG24, LAC, 1.
10 Our Historic Task
“Dieppe Raid—1942” file, “Op ‘Jubilee’ 19 Aug 42 Combined Plan, Capt. H. Hallett, Maj-Gen JH Roberts, Air Marshal TL Leigh-Mallory, Operation Jubilee: ‘110 INF DIV Order of Battle,’” 225C1.013(D6), vol. 10796, box 213, RG24, LAC, 1.