Have spent a lot of time looking at information on the Dieppe raid (including a lot on this forum) but can't find much on what there is for the visitor to see there today......more than probably due to my infantile googling skills!!! We're passing through in the town on holiday in a couple of weeks & are intending to spend a few hours there. I suppose the main beach is the area to head for to see where the main assault took place, but I'd like to find out where the memorials (e.g. Place Canada) are, and are there any gun emplacements/other visible remnants of the raid to see?

Cheers

Bob

Here's a list with Canadian memmorials

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers_f...r/dieppe/links

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It has been many years ago when I visit it, but the beach and houses where much the same, and on top of the cliffs you have a good view of the area.
Can't recall seeing any emplacements

Just missed the 65th Anniversary , never got to Dieppe until the 25th.
Good little Museum there and several memorials.
I'm running out of my available memory for uploading photos onto this Forum , but here is one of the beach for starters, I'll have to resize my other photos.

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The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry memorial.

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Otto HELP!
Whilst in Dieppe I had to use my French skills to buy a new tyre.
That happened in 2003 as well, my souvenirs of France seem to be new Michelin rubber.

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Just opened a photobucket album.
Here are some images of Dieppe.
Lots of posters around the town remembering the 65th Anniversary.

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The Fusiliers Mont Royal memorial.

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Place du Canada

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Dieppe Canadian Cemetry.

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Dieppe, D-Day beaches, Alsace, Chateaudun etc... It is great to see that people post testimonies of the sacrifice of allied soldiers throughout France. It also shows the gratitude of the locals. This is real France, not the one that is sometimes depicted by the press. Thank you for sharing.

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The memory is alive and well. It's a pleasure seeing that people take pains to commemorate events with so much dignity after so many years when so many memories seem to fade.

Thank you, Owen.

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Just bumping this up.
Lots of new Canadian members have joined who may have missed it.

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this great I never knew this thread esisted, lol.

I noticed the Australian flag on the board, great.

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They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We shall remember them. Lest We Forget

Went a couple of years ago.....on the headland of Dieppe are several gun emplacments/ bunkers.....
Then if you go further afield to eother side there are several bunkers etc from Green Red beach with memorials to the Commandos and the South Skats Regiments also it i s possible to see the radar station which was raided....then there are the remains of one of the bunkers attacked by the commandos.....
A little further afield is Bruneval......

Just thought I'd repost the RHLI memorial photos to make it easier than clicking on thumbnails.

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how many people going past that memorial even know what it is?

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They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We shall remember them. Lest We Forget

Very nice WW!!

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Members of the Dutch Resistance with 101st AB, Eindhoven. Operation Market Garden.

Scott

I am going to take a look in my photo archive.
There must be some then and now photos from dieppe. Although there is not much to be seen there these days from the original battleground.

Thank you Wessex for bumping the thread. I'll refer back to it when I eventually get to go myself.

As I mentioned on the thread Horror after Dieppe, my father could have been one of those buried in that graveyard. His battery the 16th of the 3LAA was decimated on those beaches...it was only an injury in March 42 that hospitalized him for months with major plastic surgery that he was not with them to be killed at Dieppe or an abused POW who might not have survived through 45. When I finally get to the battlefields, memorials, and graveyards I'm going to be an emotional wreck if seeing these make my eyes water!

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Regards, Michelle

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