[Misc] Dieppe Anniversary

[Charlies Shinpad]

The lesson learnt was to go onto a sandy beach not a stoney beach .
My late Dad's mate was one of the commando's that went onto the beaches months beforehand taking samples and bringing back the odd prisoner.
They also went through Paris blowing all the safes to get the money out before it was liberated.

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[Herr Tubthumper]

Thought this was going to be about school trip early 80s...

Shoplifting in the department store?

Getting p’d on the Senlac, Villandry or Valencay bar?

….and buying flick knives and bangers purely because “we could”.

 

[Weststander]

….and buying flick knives and bangers purely because “we could”.

I had an interesting drunken ferry trip back to Newhaven aged 16, the summer whilst waiting for O’level results. With a mate, we’d railed around the whole of France for weeks.

Skint, on either the Senlac/Villandry/Villancey, we were lifting bottles of beer over the bar when the steward looked away. Got smashed with strangers.

 

[Boys 9d]

A late friend of mine who was in one of the Guards regiments during the war and based locally told me that a lot of back up troop movements took place while the Raid was going on. He was convinced that it was a failed invasion and the cover up was the story that it was just a rehearsal for the real thing. He also made the point that at that time, Stalin was pressing for an invasion by the Western Allies. I think it was possible but not probable.