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HEIRS learns about locals who were at Dieppe
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Ann Brush and Bonnie Storey share one of their photos of the Essex Scottish Regiment with Kevin Fox of the Kingsville Historical Park.
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by Jennifer Cranston Last Thursday at its regular meeting, the Harrow Early Immigrant
Research Society learned about some of the local soldiers who fought at the Battle of Dieppe in 1942.
Last August, the Kingsville Historical Park museum acquired its first paid employee in the form of a new curator named Kevin Fox. Fox’s presentation was titled “The 42 Crew,” in reference to the year 1942. He laid out the original plan and the reasons it
went wrong. He explained that the Royal Canadian Regiment was late to the battle because of a run-in with a German convoy. That skirmish also gave the Germans advance warning of the attack, eliminating the element of surprise that was vital to the operation.
He described the pebbles on the beach that bogged down and jammed up the tanks. It was at one of these tanks that local doctor, Capt. Wesley Clare MC set up his field hospital. He refused to leave with the last landing craft leaving the beach because there were still men who needed medical attention and he believed himself to be the last medic on the beach. He spent the rest of the war as a German prisoner and ultimately received the Military Cross for his actions at Dieppe. The Essex Scottish Regiment sent 553 men onto the beaches that day. Fatal and non-fatal casualties accounted for 530 of those men, and only 53 returned. “I wanted to focus on a small group for the purposes of this presentation,” Fox said. He told brief stories about many locals, including Sgt. Major Maurice Snook of Kingsville. Snook became a prisoner of war that day. His German captors found cards on some of the
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