Private Leon Maxime Rivait - KIA - Dieppe - August 19th 1942 - Essex Scottish Private Alphonse Cecil Rivait - KIA - Dieppe - August 19th 1942 - Essex Scottish Private Lawrence Rivait - KIA - Groesbeek, Netherlands - November 23rd 1944 - Essex Scottish Private Raymond Rivait - POW - Dieppe - August 19th 1942 - Essex Scottish Private Edward Rivait - Survived Edward enlisted shortly after the third brother was killed. His parents drew up a petition to get him out of the service. They succeeded in having him discharged, but Edward reenlisted a month later. By the wars end, the Essex Scottish Regiment had suffered more than 550 war dead and had been inflicted with the highest number of casualties of any unit in the Canadian Army during the Second World War, more than 2,500. National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother 1964 - Books of Remembrance - Memorials - Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada
In the early hours of Aug. 19, 1942, 553 soldiers of the Windsor-based Essex Scottish Regiment landed on the cobblestone shores of Dieppe, France only to be pinned down by enemy gunfire that decimated their numbers and sealed the fate of the highly criticized raid. Only 51 Essex Scottish soldiers made it back to England by evening. Almost a quarter of them, 121, were killed, and most of the rest suffered in PoW camps for the remainder of the war. the raid on Dieppe, France - The Essex and Kent Scottish History - Essex & Kent Scottish
Canuck, I was at the Dieppe Cemetery in September. Ingram Brothers are laid to rest in the same grave. Lest we forget.
My ancestor Pvt. Horace Frederick Bradbury was a Dieppe Raid casualty listed as wounded...was married to Clophy Rivait of Belle River Ontario. Pvt. Bradbury was one of the 51 soldiers of the Essex Scottish Regiment who made it back to England right after the raid. Pvt. Bradbury was from Chatham Ontario and after the war he moved to Toronto where he worked in construction for Cloke Construction.
