Red Beach Memorial
Municipality/Province: Windsor, ON
Memorial number: 35099-021
Type: Stele
Address: Riverside Dr W
Location: Dieppe Gardens
GPS coordinates: Lat: 42.3196869 Long: -83.0434101
In 2006, members of the Windsor community raised money for a monument dedicated to reservists from the Windsor-based Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment who took part in the Raid on Dieppe. That monument was erected in Dieppe's Red Beach, France, where the regiment landed and dedicated on August 19, 2006. On January 4, 2010, City of Windsor officials approved construction of a duplicate monument to be built much closer to home in Dieppe Gardens.
The $60,000, 2.4-metre-high monument is made of black granite and features a cutout of a large maple leaf. It was designed and placed so that on August 19 at 1pm — the exact hour that the regiment stormed the beach — if the sun shines, it will cast a perfect shadow of that maple leaf on the stainless steel leaf installed on the ground below. Designer Rory O'Connor, a local art student, thought it would be great to use the sundial idea to tell about the time and retreat of these soldiers. The beach stones around this monument were collected from the beach at Dieppe.
The monument commemorates the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment's sacrifices in Dieppe, but also those that made it throughout northwest Europe until final victory in 1945. The engineering, construction and fundraising was undertaken by the auspices of The Essex and Kent Scottish by Delta Company, the civilian affiliate of the Regiment.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
DEDICATED BY
THE ESSEX SCOTTISH REGIMENT
CANADA
TO THE MEMORY OF OUR
COMRADES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN WORLD WAR II DURING THE RAID
ON DIEPPE AUGUST 19, 1942 AND
DURING THE ALLIED ADVANCE
THROUGH FRANCE, BELGIUM,
HOLLAND AND GERMANY 1944 - 45
ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY
DÉDIÉ PAR
LE RÉGIMENT ESSEX SCOTTISH
CANADA
À LA MÉMOIRE DE NOS CAMARADES
QUI ONT PERDU LA VIE PENDANT LA
DEUXIÈME GUERRE MONDIALE AU
COURS DU RAID A DIEPPE
LE 19 AOÛT 1942 ET PENDANT
L'AVANCE DES ALLIÉS À TRAVERS
LA FRANCE, LA BELGIQUE,
LA HOLLANDE ET L'ALLEMAGNE
(1944 - 45) EN VOIE
DE REMPORTER LA VICTOIRE
[back/arrière]
THE
ESSEX SCOTTISH
REGIMENT
10TH AUGUST 1942
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