THE ESSEX SCOTTISH REGIMENT

Plage rouge . Red beache

Ce régiment a lui aussi été créé dans les années 1860 face aux menaces d'invasion du Canada. Cependant il faut attendre 1885 pour que l'unité recoive un nom officiel : 21e Bataillon d'infanterie d'Essex. La 1er septembre le Bataillon est réactivé et rejoint l'Angleterre le 16 aout 1940.

Pour Dieppe, 553 hommes venus de l'Ontario, sous le commandement du Lieutenant-colonel Fred K.Jasperson débarquent. Au soir du 19 août, 121 Essex sont morts, 382 sont prisonniers dont beaucoup de blessés (14 mourront en Allemagne), 23 hommes sont indemnes.

Nous retrouverons cette unité, avec un effectif complété, dans la Bataille de Normandie, les combats de la Libération de la France, de la Belgique et des Pays-Bas. Au cours de la seconde guerre mondiale, les Essex Scottish subissent les pertes les plus importantes de tous les bataillons de l'armée canadienne.  550 soldats sont morts en Europe.

Le régiment sera dissous le 15 décembre 1945.    

     This regiment has also created in 1860 with the threats d'invasion of Canada. However it should be waited until 1885 so that recoive l unity an official name: 21e infantry Battalion of Essex. September 1 the Battalion is reactivated and joined England on August 16, 1940. For Dieppe, 553 men come from l'Ontario, under the command of the Lieutenant-colonel Fred K.Jasperson unload. In the evening of August 19, 121 Essex died, 382 are prisoners of which many wounded (14 will die in Germany), 23 men are save. We will find this unit, with a supplemented manpower, in the Battle of Normandy, the combat of the Release of France, of Belgium and the Netherlands. During the second world war, Essex Scottish undergo the most important losses of all the battalions of Canadian Army. 550 soldiers died in Europe. The regiment will be dissolved on December 15, 1945.

Ils sont venus un matin d'août 1942 : They came one morning of august 1942

private C.P. ADAMS
private E.W. ALLEN
private Léonard ANDREW
sergeant Albert Edgar ARTHUR
private J.E. AURAND
private James BALLMER
private J.L. BALOG
private Newton Anderson BARNARD
private Gordon Ernest BARRETT
private R. BELCOURT
private Samuel BERGER
private G. BEZENAR
private Frédérick BIZOVY
private William Wallace BL.ACK
private Clifford Orney BOWERS
private Harold Grenville BOYDEN
private Henning Rudolf CALBERG
private Bertram H.R. CAPNERHURST
corporal Irwin CLARKE
private Maurice CLOUTIER
private Clayton K. COLLISON
private N.W. COOK
private A.R. CORMIER
private Earl COUVIA
private Andrew M. CUDMORE
private Richard D. DAVIDSON
private Franklin A. DAWSON
private Francis J. DE LISLE
major David DEZIEL
private George A. DIXON
quatermaster sergeant Charles DONALD
corporal Elmore R. DONNELLY
private Russel DUBE
private A. DUNCAN
private Clarence DUROCHER
private C.P. EAST
private John R. EDNIE
captain C.T. ELLIOT
private G.R. FAUBERT
private FLEMING
private Walter L. FLOYD
private Sam GEORGE
private Jack A. GODFREY
lieutenant Alfred Douglas GREEN
major Jim GREEN
corporal GRONDIN
private Lawrence Wesley GULLIVER
private R.T. HAINES
private Peter Charles HANSON
private Gaile Hader HARMAN
major Thomas E. HAYHURST
private Victor HEBERT
capitaine HILL
lance corporal Albert HIND
private George F. HOCH
private T.E. HOOD
lieutenant-colonel Fred K JASPERSON
private Gerald James JELSO
private H.E. JEPSEN
private Robert Kee KEARNS
private George Howard KENNEDY
private William Donald KENNEDY
private Henry KNAPP
prvate Wilfred Joseph LARSH
lance corporal Lorne Allen LAUZON
private Jack Victor LAWRENCE
private Frederick MacLEAN
lieutenant Percy Owen LEE
sergeant Andrew LENNOX
private George Henry LEOPOLD
private Everett R. MacCORMICK
corporal Harry Alex MacDONALD
private Edgar Françis MacINTYRE
private P.B. MacKEON
private Frederick MacLEAN
private Patrick Beery MacLEON
sergeant William MacMILLAN
capitaine MacRAE
private J. MAIER
private Felix Edward MATTE
private Paul John MORENCY
private Charles Leslie MORLEY
private James MULHOLLAND
private Robert Davidson MURPHY
private Willain Davidson MURPHY
private Eugene Adelbert NEALE
private Russell Lee O'CONNOR
private Wilfrid Daniel O'CONNOR
private Frederick MacLEAN
prIvate E. PARENT
lieutenant James Chaney PARMS
private John Donald PATE
private Richard PODGER
private C.E. POST
lieutenant Jack PRINCE
private James RENNIE
private V. RIEDL
private Douglas Charles RINKER
private A.C. RIVAIT
private Leon Maxime RIVAIT
private D.F. ROYAN
private Maurice SAINT LOUIS
private Harold G. SCHARFE
lance corporal Charles M. SCHOOLEY
private S.P. SHEPLEY
lance-corporal M.D. SINASAC
private H. SIVERNS
private T. STAINTON
sergent-major Cornelius STAPLETON
private James William STEERS
corporal STEVENSON
lance corporal Alexander J. TAYLOR
private J. TAYLOR
sergeant W.G. TAYLOR
private Thomas THOMPSON
private Ronald Kenrick TOWLE
lance corporal Le Joseph TROMBLEY
private D. VALLANCE
private Edgard Raymond VAUGHAN
private Weldrick Fred WALKER
private James WALMSLEY (42 ans)
sergeant E.C.S. WHEELER
private Donald WHITE
private Roy WIGLE
major J.A. WILLES
private J.H. WINGFIELD
private Wilfred WINTERBOTTOM
private Victor WYSUKI

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