Dieppe - Operation Jubilee
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Date commenced:
Wednesday, August 19, 1942
Location
Dieppe
France
49° 55' 22.8" N, 1° 4' 39" E
Combined Allied Force from all three Services. The Commandos had specific tasks outlined below in support of the main allied Force. The photo above and below show Commandos returning from the raid.
Operation Flodden - Berneval
No. 3 Commando (including some 10 Cdo. Free French) was to land eight miles east of Dieppe to assault and silence the coastal battery near Berneval.
Operation Cauldron - Varengeville
No. 4 Commando (including some 10 Cdo. Free French and U.S. Rangers) landed a few miles west of Dieppe to assault and silence the coastal battery close to Varengeville.
Harbour area
The RM Commando (re-designated in November 1942 as 40RM Commando) were assigned to assault and secure the harbour area.
Whilst No 4 Commando succeeded in their objective, No 3 Commando came under heavy fire managing only to pin down the battery making it ineffective during the main assault, rather than destroy it. The initial assignment/role of the RM Commando was changed during the action. The RM Commando was placed at the disposal of the Canadian GOC, Major General Roberts. After passing through White beach, they were to join the Essex Scottish, believed to be in the town. As the first of the RM Commando landed they came under withering enemy fire and were ordered to re-embark within 10 minutes of landing. The main assault failed and the Allies, particularly the Canadian Forces, suffered heavy casualties. The names of the Fallen below relate only to Commandos, and those who were attached to a Commando unit specifically for this raid.
Follow this link for a partial Nominal Roll of No.4 Commando, No.10 Commando, and the 1st US Rangers at Dieppe.
Details on some 300 commandos including No.3 Commando and the Royal Marine Commando (40RM) that took part can be found by clicking on 'What Links Here' at top of this page.
Dieppe Commando Roll of Honour
Here is an alternative view of this Roll of Honour [View .......].
No.3 Commando
Sapper Rex Adderley,Private Andrew Anderson
Private Cyril Barrett
Private John Bryan
Private Fred Broadbent
Private John Broster
Gunner George Cooper Captain Samuel Corry
Private Douglas Fisher
Corporal Thomas Gerrard
Private Ernest Harding
Lance Corporal Richard Harding
Private Norman Harrison
Private Leonard Jackman
Lieutenant Peter Kenward
Private John Lacey
Private Edward Leddington
Lance Sergeant Joseph Mills
Lance Corporal Leslie Newell
Fusilier Ernest Pickersgill
Private Francis Rhodes
Fusilier Thomas Sharp Sergeant Fred Teasdale Gunner Hubert Wadsworth
Gunner William Wall
No.4 Commando
Lance Corporal John BishopPrivate William Garthwaite
Private Frederick Gooch
Lance Corporal Edward Heckman
Lance Corporal James Keenan
Lieutenant John Macdonald Private Stanley McGann Lance Corporal Duncan Thompson Mercer
Lance Corporal Alexander Mills
Lance Corporal John Moss ( served as Taylor)
Captain Roger Pettiward
Private George Sutton
Signalman George Tucker
Rifleman Joseph Watters
Lance Corporal John Whatley
Guardsman Jack Whittaker
The RM Commando (40RM Commando)
Marine John AlexanderSergeant Jack Beesley
Marine Arthur Callow
Marine John Catterall
Captain Alan Comyn
Corporal Alfred Duerden
Corporal Henry Everall
Marine Eric Gotts
Colour Sergeant Frederick Harwood Corporal Albert Heath
Marine John Mackinstry
Corporal Norman McDonald
Lance Corporal Henry Morgan Marine Samuel Northern
Marine Peter Orman
Lieutenant Derrick Over
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Picton Phillips
Marine Wallace Powell
Marine William Rhodes
Marine Albert Riddle
Marine Ronald Singleton
Corporal Thomas Thorp
Marine Percy Walker
Marine Harold Wigmore
The following are believed to have served with 10(IA) Commando at Dieppe, and died on or just after the 19th August 1942.
Corporal Serge Moutaillier (French) - wounded and pow, later executed
Private Gustav Oppelt (Czech) 19th August 1942
GHQ LIaison Regiment - Phantom patrol (assigned to Commandos)
Lieutenant Michael Guy Hillerns (attached to No 3 Commando)
Royal Artillery - 1st Forward Observation unit (assigned to Commandos)
Captain James Howard Thomas (attached to No. 3 Commando)
United States 1st Ranger Bn (assigned to 3 and 4 Commandos or the 2nd Canadian Divn.)
2nd Lieutenant Edward Vincent Loustalot (attached to No 3 Commando)
1st Lieutenant Joseph Howard Randall, s/n. 0-418342 (attached Canadians) age 22.
Tech 4 Corporal Howard Murl Henry, s/n. 35125112 (attached Canadians) age 23.
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