Dieppe Gardens
Municipality/Province: Windsor, ON
Memorial number: 35099-015
Type: Park, plaque
Address: Riverside Drive
Location: Dieppe Gardens
GPS coordinates: Lat: 42.3191042 Long: -83.0431564
Submitted by: Donna Menna. City of Windsor.
For years, this property was used as a docking site by the Detroit-Windsor Ferry Company and several businesses. In the late 1950s, these buildings were purchased and demolished by the City of Windsor so that the site could be developed into a major riverfront park. This park was to share the memories of those men and women who participated in various military engagements.
Dieppe Gardens was officially dedicated June 28, 1959, named after Dieppe, France, where the Essex Scottish Regiment of Windsor, along with other units of the 2nd Canadian Division, made an assault landing on August 19, 1942. Almost 5,000 troops, joined by members of the British and American forces, took part in the Dieppe Raid. The results were grim and more than 3,350 soldiers would be killed, wounded or taken prisoner that day. This park honours of all the men who served in this engagement and those from this area who served in Canada’s Armed Forces in the Second World War.
Lieutenant Colonel F. K. Jasperson, DSO, ED, QC, the commanding officer of the Essex Scottish Regiment of Windsor during the Dieppe Raid, unveiled the Service Personnel Monument. Three Army padres who took part in the commemoration ceremonies in Dieppe, France, during the Second World War officiated the service — Captain J.W. Houston, former chaplain of 2nd Division, Royal Canadian Artillery; Major F.C. McRitchie, former chaplain of 2nd Division Royal Canadian Engineers and current chaplain of Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment; and Major M.J. Dalton, MBE, former chaplain of the Essex Scottish Regiment.
As a further tribute to the Windsor area men who served and died, a plane flew over the area at the end of the ceremony and dropped poppies.
When Dieppe Gardens was dedicated, a Service Personnel Monument featuring a Silver Cross was placed by mothers whose sons were killed in the Second World War. Dieppe Gardens is home to many other military monuments: Pray for Peace, Naval Monument, WO1 Pipe Major J. (Jock) Copland MBE Memorial, Eternal Flame, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial, Red Beach Memorial, and Korea Veterans War Memorial.
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DIEPPE GARDENS
NAMED AFTER DIEPPE, FRANCE, WHERE THE ESSEX
SCOTTISH REGIMENT OF WINDSOR, ALONG WITH OTHER
UNITS OF THE 2ND CANADIAN DIVISION, MADE AN
ASSAULT LANDING ON AUGUST 19 1942.
THE 5,000-MAN FORCE, WHICH INCLUDED BRITISH
AND AMERICAN ARMED SERVICE PERSONNEL, SUFFERED
CASUALTIES OF 3,363 IN KILLED, WOUNDED AND PRISONERS OF WAR.
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