19 Aug 2006 Vernon

Saturday, 19 Aug 2006 (24 photos)

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Just before first light, the crescent moon rises over a quiet Sicily Square where just eight hours earlier a very noisy and happy battalion was dismissed for a final time (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

Throughout the night serials have been leaving camp, another serial is about to head off (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

0830 hrs, another serial prepares to leave (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

With a little help from my friends (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

Goodbyes are hard to say (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

Movements staff, Capt Tony Liem and Capt Gary Hurst sort details for the serial (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

In a few short hours most everyone will be home (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

The camp is a little more quiet now (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

Last light (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)

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Battalion dispersing

Today's weather: Max Temp. 32c Min Temp. 13c Sunny and hot

This day in Canadian Military History -

19 August 1942
Battle of Dieppe. The raid on the French port by the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division is a disaster from the beginning, with tanks getting stuck on the pebbled beach and the infantry being pinned down along the seawall of the resort town. Of the 4963 Canadians who go ashore today, 2211 return to Britain after the assault is called off. The rest are either killed or marched off into prisoner-of-war camps.

Vernon's main parade square was built in the mid 1950s and was named Dieppe Square in honour of those men of Aug 19, 1942.