The Dieppe Raid Memorial Service will take place on Sunday 10th August (3pm) on Memorial Green. We are therefore opening the museum  for our Dieppe Raid exhibition. Between 11am and 2pm we will be joined by Francis Pulham and friends from Newhaven Fort, who will be in full battle dress.  Why not ask them what it was like to be a commando during the raid. The museum will be open until 4pm. Entry will be FREE.

Operation Jubilee, known more commonly as the Dieppe Raid, took place on 19 August 1942. Newhaven was one of the five ports from which the raid was launched. The raid itself was a disaster. Of the nearly 5,000 Canadians who took part, 3,367 were killed, wounded or taken prisoner, whilst the 1,000 British Commandos lost 247 men.

The railway was involved transporting the wounded to hospital and the few German prisoners to POW camps.  A memorial to the Corp of Royal Canadian Engineers, who trained at Newhaven before sailing for Dieppe, can be found on Memorial Green. Although it is dedicated to the 27 Engineers who were lost, it is now regarded as a memorial to all the Canadians who died during the raid.