Invasion Beach Pourville
On 19 August 1942, during the failed Dieppe Raid, men of The South Saskatchewan Regiment came on shore here.
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Source
- Text: Kaj Metz
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons
Nearby
Museum
Point of interest
- Lieutenant Colonel Cecil ‘Cec’ Merritt Bridge - Pourville Sur Mer
- Invasion Beach Dieppe - Dieppe
- Lighthouse d'Ailly - Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer
Monument
- Canadian Memorial Pourville-sur-Mer - Pourville-sur-Mer
- Memorial Dieppe Raid - Dieppe
- Memorials Wall Swimming Pool Dieppe - Dieppe
Cemetery
- French War Graves - Dieppe
- Commonwealth War Graves Dieppe - Dieppe
- Commonwealth War Grave Varengeville-sur-Mer - Varengeville-sur-Mer
Fortification
- Atlantikwall - Château de Dieppe - Dieppe
- German Observation Bunker Plage de Puys - Dieppe
- Atlantikwall - Bunker - Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer
Crash site
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