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Description
Mr. Walsh discusses why the Royal Regiment of Canada, with two other regiments, was selected to clear Dieppe based on the fact that it was decimated during the original Dieppe raid.
Transcription
Then we started to clear the ports along the coast of France right up to Dieppe from Normandy up to Dieppe. We were given the privilege because our regiment was one of the, had the most casualties 1942 raid and so the three regiments. The way they work is there is a brigade. A brigade usually consists of three regiments and there was the Royal Regiment, there was the Essex Scots and Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, that was a Brigade. And they were the ones that took the bad beatings in Dieppe in 1942. So we were given the privilege of clearing the port this time around, of course, when we finished there we on up, the rest get back into Holland.