Worst single losses day for a Canadian Regiment in ww2 as I am sure you know
Stacey Vol 1 pp 363-368 for the official history
http://www.dnd.ca/DHH/history_archives/engraph/cmhq_e.asp?cat=1
reports #83,89,90,100,101,107,108,109
Im sure some of this deals with the RRofC, since only a few who landed got back, and since I think this happened because they were landed at the wrong place, i do not know how much information it goes into.
I have some pictures from when I visited there last summer, pm me if you are intrested and I can email you, I dont know how to post pictures here.
If you look at Puys from the pier off the main beach it boogles the mind that we would even try and land there. From what I understand they used air maps to pick the beach and this made it look longer than it is, this is a poor excuse as many people living in the UK had doubtlessly visited Dieppe before '39, seems like a case of bad staff work to me (similar to the failure to identify the type of beach we would land tanks at Dieppe which caused many of them belly).
I have heard one story of someone who was there, his part in ww2 consisted of keeping his head down and then surrendering. The Pill box which caused alot of the casulities is still there, you have to climb a bit to get at it and trespass but well worth it for the view you get.
Only the Lt-Col and a few others got off the beach and after that everyone was pinned down. The RCA people were there in order to use captured German guns as well as for directing fire.
There is a small monument at the beach which says (in French as well obviously, i got very emotional reading it):
On This Beach
Officers and Men of the
Royal Regiment of Canada
Died at Dawn 19 August 1942
Striving to Reach the Heights Beyond
You who are alive, on this beach,
remember that these men died far from home,
that others, here and everywhere, might freely
enjoy life in God's Mercy.