Dieppe anniversary remembered

Nice find Hyack !

Looked like a nice dedication as well.

My Grandfather's unit. He joined in '39 and stayed with them for the duration. Too bad he passed a few years ago, he'd have liked to have seen this. My Grandmother said that when I joined he started opening up on his service during the war.

Is there anyone who takes care of the Essex Scottish files these days ?




I have always been curious about this guy:

PARENT, RUFUS
Date of Birth: 07 Jul 1914
Date of Death: 25 Oct 1943
Rank: Private
Unit: Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Force: Army
Service Number: A21236
Reference: RG 24


He is in Klagenfurt Cemetery in Austria, how he got there I have no idea.

Closest I ever got was an RHLI website that has a Casualty list, and he on it.
There is an E. Parent on that list though, could be his brother.


So, if anyone has access to the records of the Scottish,
can you ask them to get in touch with me ?

Thanks

Ernest (Most likely Dieppe)
Date of Death: 19/08/1942

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_det ... ty=2083434


Richard, J (Likely the battle to close the Falaise Gap)
Date of Death: 23/08/1944

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_det ... ty=2335200

Rufus (Likely died in one of the POW camps - Dollerscheim, Gneizendorf, Kaisersteinbruch, Leinz Drau, Spittal Drau or Wolfsburg Gratz)
Date of Death: 25/10/1943

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_det ... ty=2805598

KLAGENFURT WAR CEMETERY
Austria was annexed by Germany in March 1938, and many labour, prisoner-of-war and concentration camps were established there by the Germans. The principal POW camps were at Dollerscheim, Gneizendorf, Kaisersteinbruch, Leinz Drau, Spittal Drau and Wolfsburg Gratz. Commonwealth war dead buried in Austria were mainly servicemen who died in these camps in captivity, airmen who were shot down or crashed while flying over the country and those who died while serving with the army of occupation after the war. Klagenfurt, the only Commonwealth war cemetery in Austria, was begun in June 1945 by the British occupying forces, who moved graves into it from all over the country. It now contains 589 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. Between 1950 and 1954, eight First World War graves (three of them unidentified) were moved into the cemetery from small cemeteries at Innsbruck, Mauthausen, Muhldorf and Vienna. At the same time, special memorials were erected to two other First World War casualties whose graves at Muhldorf and Vienna could not be found.

You may have to look for information with it's full name although both should show up on the web searches. (The Essex and Kent Scottish)

(The Essex Scottish Regiment, C.A.S.F., served in the European theater, The Kent Regiment C.A.S.F. served only in Canada.)

I can't find much more on the web but it seems there is a book about them "1 Bn. The Essex Scottish Regiment" The Wellington Press, Aldershot, 1946

Apperently the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment in Windsor have a good history and archives section in the Major F. A. Tilston V.C. Armoury, contact number for their Orderly Room is (519) 254-2535

If anyone is close to there.........

It is Rufus, Ernest died on the day of Dieppe, didnt know about the other.



As I said R, I was just curious as to how he wound up in Klagenfurt.



I know POWs were moved around a bit, but Dieppe is on the English Channel.

Those camps are all in Austria, some down near the border with Italy,
and he is alone there, the only Canadian except for a bomber crew who probably crashed around Vienna in April 1945.


Bit far for one Canuck to be moved by himself.. must been someone 'special'

Units who participated in the Dieppe raid:



2nd Infantry Division

Royal Regiment of Canada
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
Essex Scottish Regiment
Fusiliers Mont-Royal
Queens Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
South Saskatchewan Regiment
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Calgary Highlanders
Toronto Scottish Regiment (Machine Gun)
14th Armoured Regiment (Calgary Regiment)
Detachment of 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
Detachment of 4th Field Regiment
Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals,
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps,
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps



And of course, the RAF, RN, 3 and 4 Commando including the Rangers.
Apologies if I forgot anyone.