Red Beach Memorial

Rory O'Connor / The Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment
Red Beach Memorial
Granite, stainless steel, 238 x 80 x 30 centimetres

The monument was designed and placed so that on August 19 at 1 p.m., the exact hour the regiment stormed the beach, sunlight goes through the maple leaf on the monument and shines on the stainless steel leaf installed on the ground.

English inscription on plaque:

Dedicated by
the Essex Scottish Regiment
Canada
To the memory of our
comrades who gave their lives
in World War II during the raid
on Dieppe August 19, 1942 and
during the Allied advance
through France, Belgium,
Holland and Germany 1944 - 45
on the road to victory