Dieppe Operation Jubilee: Orbat, Dieppe, August 19, 1942
Terry Coello
Allied Land Forces
Military Force Commander: Major General John H. Roberts.
Canadian 2nd Division
Embarked Killed Wounded POW Returned
[evacuated]
HQ & Miscellaneous 90 5 14 15 70
4th Canadian Infantry Brigade
(Brigadier Sherwood Lett)
J Section, 2nd Canadian
Division Signals
Royal Regiment of Canada 554 227 33 264 65
(Lt Col D E Chatto) (40.9%) (6%) (47.7%) (11.7%)
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry 582 197 109 175 217
(Lt Col Labatt) (33.8%) (18.7%) (30%) (37.3%)
Essex Scottish Regiment 553 121 27 382 52
(Lt Col Jasperson) (21.9%) (4.9%) (69%) (9.4%)
6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
(Brigadier W W Southam)
L Section, 2nd Canadian
Division Signals
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal 584 119 50 344 125
(Lt Col D Menard) (20.4%) (8.6%) (58.9%) (21.4%)
Queen’s Own Cameron 503 76 103 167 268
Highlanders of Canada (15.1%) (20.5%) (33.2%) (53.3%)
(Lt Col A C Gostling)
South Saskatchewan Regiment 523 84 166 89 353
(Lt Col C C I Merritt) (16.1%) (31.7%) (17%) (67.5%)
14th Canadian Army 417 13 4 157 247
Tank Regiment (The Calgary (3%) (1%) (37.6%) (59%)
Regiment) (Lt Col Andrews)
[from 1st Canadian Army
Tank Brigade]
7th Field Company, RCE
2nd Canadian Division Signals 9
Attached
8th Canadian Reconnaissance
Regiment
The Black Watch of Canada 111 4 6 63 44
(Royal Highland Regiment) (3.6%) (5.4%) (56.8%) (39.6%)
The Calgary Highlanders 23 23
The Toronto Scottish 125 1 8 4 120
(MG battalion) (0.8%) 6.4%) (3.2%) (96%)
R.C.A. [elements] 270 13 4 30 227
(4.8%) (1.5%) (11.1%) (84.1%)
R.C.A.S.C. [elements] 38 1 6 4 33
(2.6%) (15.8%) (10.5%) (86.8%)
R.C.E. [elements] 316 27 36 125 165
(8.5%) (11.4%) (40%) (52.2%)
R.C.A.M.C. [elements] 126 4 3 12 110
(3.2%) (2.4%) (9.5%) (87.3%)
R.C.O.C. [elements] 15 2 2 2 11
(13.3%) (13.3%) (13.3%) (73.3%)
Canadian Provost Corps 41 1 7 18 22
[elements] (2.4%) (17.1%) (44%) (53.7%)
Canadian Intelligence Corps 15 3 0 5 7
[elements] (20%) (33.3%) (46.7%)
Canadian Totals
4963 907 587 1946 2210
(18.3%) (11.8%) (39.2%) (44.5%)
N.B. Wounded figures are for wounded evacuated only. An additional 570 wounded
were captured and included in those figures. Totals do not therefore = 100%. Total wounded is also estimated at 2460 (= 49.6%). Of the 2210 evacuated, only 336 (6.8%) were uninjured.
Other Forces
Embarked Killed Wounded POW Total
[evacuated] Casualties
No. 3 (Army) Commando
(Lt Col Durnford-Slater) 126
No. 4 (Army) Commando
(Lt Col The Lord Lovat) 45
with under command:
1st US Ranger Battalion 50 6 7 4 17
[elements] (12%) (14%) (8%) 34%)
RM ‘A’ Commando
(Lt Col Picton-Phillips) 100
British totals 1075 52 271
(4.8%) (25.2%)
No. 10 Inter-Allied 20
Commando [including 15 French]
N.B. An estimated 1000 of the embarked Allied force did not land - including most of No. 3 Commando, part of the RM Commando, and half of the 14th Tank Regiment.
German Land Forces
Units in action italicised [total = c. 2500-5000].
302nd Infantry Division [of LXXXI Corps of 15 Army of Army Group D]
(Lieutenant General Konrad Haase) (HQ Envermu)
570th Infantry Regiment (1st Battalion; 2nd Battalion; 3rd Battalion)
571st Infantry Regiment (1st Battalion; 571st Cyclist Company; 571st ATk Company) [rated low combat worthiness]
572nd Infantry Regiment
302nd Artillery Regiment (incl. 3rd Group)
302nd ATk Company
302nd Engineer Company
302nd Pioneer Battalion
332nd Division
676th Infantry Regiment (1st Battalion; 3rd Battalion)
813th Battery
2/770 Coastal Battery
Casualties
Killed Wounded Missing Total
Army
115/345 187 14 316
Navy
78 33 111
Air Force
40/104 58 162
Total
? 278 14 591
Sources
Saul David, Military Blunders, 1997, pages 108-117
Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, Military Intelligence Blunders, 1999, Chapter 6.
Eric Maguire, Dieppe: August 19 1942, 1963
R.W. Thompson, ‘Massacre at Dieppe’ and Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Fairlie Wood, The ‘Canadians at Dieppe’ in, Purnell’s History of the Second World War, 1966, Volume 3, pages 1093-1107.
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942, <www.orbat.com/site/data/historical>, 2001