31 The number of eyewitnesses to the events of 19 August 1942 grows smaller each year. Soon there will be no more Canadians with living memory of what transpired on, above, or before the beaches at Dieppe, Puys, and Pourville now eighty years ago. The 80th anniversary commemorations at Dieppe’s Square du Canada this past August highlighted the age and fragility of those few survivors. Part of the official Canadian delegation at the ceremony was one hundred-year-old Gordon Fennell. As a twenty-year-old, he landed at Dieppe with the Calgary Tank Regiment. He survived the day and was one of the lucky ones in his Regiment to make it back to England that day. 157 others remained in France as POW’s; thirteen others never came home. Recalling that day, Fennell said, “I escaped being made a prisoner of war by DIEPPE 80 YEARS OF REMEMBERING By John Goheen August 19, 1942 80 Operation Jubilee years Gordon Fennell.
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