Canadian Military History Volume 9 Issue 4 Article 2 2000 On the Beach and in the Bag: The Fate of Dieppe Casualties Left Behind Charles G. Roland McMaster University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh Part of the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Roland, Charles G. "On the Beach and in the Bag: The Fate of Dieppe Casualties Left Behind." Canadian Military History 9, 4 (2000) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Roland: On the Beach and in the Bag Published by Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2000 1 Canadian Military History, Vol. 9 [2000], Iss. 4, Art. 2 On the Beach and in the Bag The Fate of Dieppe Casualties Left Behind Charles G. Roland hen the last Allied ships drew away from No. 11 Canadian Field Ambulance had been the beaches of Dieppe on 19 August 1942, selected and trained with the main Dieppe W forces, the plan being to supplement the they left behind over 2,700 of the 4,963 regimental stretcher-bearers with sections of Canadians who had embarked on the raid: 807 11th CFA. Each section of the field ambulance men were dead, including four Royal Canadian was composed of an officer and 11 men. Their Army Medical Corps [RCAMC] medical orderlies, equipment was thoroughly supervised and an and 1,946 (including four Canadian Medical attempt was made to provide what was most Officers (MOs), a chaplain, and at least 11 suitable.