South Saskatchewan Regiment
The South Saskatchewan Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces formed in 1936 by the amalgamation of The Weyburn Regiment and The Saskatchewan Border Regiment. It was reduced to nil strength and placed on the Supplementary Order of Battle in 1968. They participated in the 1942 Dieppe Raid.
The cap badge of the South Saskatchewan Regiment.
The regimental colour of the South Saskatchewan Regiment.
Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid was an unsuccessful Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under protection of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters.
An abandoned British Daimler Dingo on the beach
Oblique aerial photograph of Dieppe taken in June, 1945, showing the Red beach.
Landing Craft Mechanised Mark 1 returning from the beaches during the raid
A German MG34 medium machine gun emplacement