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Description
As the morning of the Dieppe Raid wore on, one of the platoons managed to enter the town of Dieppe.
Donald Gorman
M. Gorman est né le 23 juin 1921. Son père était mécanicien de machines fixes dans une école secondaire de Windsor et était un ancien combattant de la guerre des Boers et de la Première Guerre mondiale. M. Gorman a quitté l'école après avoir obtenu son immatriculation junior et a travaillé dans une boulangerie, une poissonnerie et comme apprenti mécanicien à l'usine de machines à écrire Remington-Rand, à Windsor. Après s'être enrôlé le 16 septembre 1939, il a reçu son instruction élémentaire à Windsor, avant d'être envoyé en juin 1940 à Borden afin de recevoir son instruction avancée. M. Gorman s'est rendu outre-mer avec le Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Regiment et a participé au raid sur Dieppe.
Transcription
The colonel was told that this platoon had got in see, so we were asked to relay this message to the Calpe. So Bill did and he said that a platoon had landed in, had got in to Dieppe. Well it got twisted and the message, it ended up in the Calpe was that the Essex Scottish had penetrated into Dieppe. Well the FMR’s were laying off shore and this is daylight, and the FMR’s, what they were supposed to do was to come in and take up our position on the beach, we were supposed to go through Dieppe and then we were supposed to meet another regiment from the 6th Brigade. I think it was the South Saskatchewans that Merritt had and anyway, and they were to come through Dieppe and then load on and out and then we were to fight a rear action and get back. Well the FMR’s came in and they were just shot right out of the water, it was in broad daylight and whatnot and anyway, things went on. Ammunition started running low and there was a lot of casualties and that. But I don’t know, it just seemed that the mind was blocked out to this stuff you know. Bradley, he stuck with the radio and I helped him as much as I could, but I couldn’t help him a hell of a lot and then finally around, I think it was around 1 o’clock, they said there was going to be a cease fire about two I think it was. So Bradley told me this and I said, “Take your rifle and smash that damn thing. And when the cease fire goes in,” I said, “you smash it.”