Context: Dieppe Raid 1942 - Operations RUTTER/JUBILEE (5)

New Canadian Stamps, France's Edith Cavell and More

[113243. Canadian infantrymen disembarking from a landing craft during a training

exercise before Operation JUBILEE, the raid on Dieppe, France. England, August

1942. Photo link - https://wartimes.ca/battle/world-war-ii/dieppe-raid/]

Introduction:

The following news items, editorial(s), cartoons, etc. are from issues of The Winnipeg Tribune first published in July 14 - July 17, 1942. They do not relate directly to Canadians who served in the RCNVR and Combined Operations but provide details of what was happening on other war fronts during the weeks before the Dieppe raid took place.

One article about the Fishermen's Reserve (from British Columbia) would have been of interest to many Canadians who served in Combined Ops, particularly those who were stationed at HMCS Givenchy III on Vancouver Island (from Jan. 1944 until discharged in Sept. 1945) after training for and handling landing crafts at Dieppe, Nortrh Africa, Sicily and Italy.

Readers can link to The Winnipeg Tribune here in order to explore issues from many decades gone by.

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"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Rhine Army"). (Link to Wikipedia)

The English translation of Verse 1, seen beneath the editorial cartoon above, is as follows:

Let's go children of the fatherland,

The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!

Refrain:

Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

Link to lyrics at THOUGHT COMPANY.

The photo below may have been taken during the combined operations exercises that were featured in an earlier post and found in the July 13, 1942 issue of The Winnipeg Tribune.

More news articles, editorial cartoons, ads, etc. - to provide context related to the time of the Dieppe raid - will follow.

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