Shown in the above photos are the Non-Commissioned Members (NCO's) of D-Section, 2 Provost Company during WWII whose unit was deployed on the
Dieppe Raid in 1942. LCpl Irvine Eugene Thompson, second from the left, embarked on Operation Jubilee to France on 18 Aug 1942 and disembarked (wounded)
on 19 Aug 1942. NCO's in the above photo are (left - right) - L/Cpl Hares FW, L/Cpl. Thompson Irvine E., L/Cpl Wheaton FJ, L/Cpl Woods ET,
L/Cpl Crosthwaite RE, Cpl Mitchell FJ, L/Cpl Ford, RP, L/Cpl Martin WJC, L/Cpl Shaw RE, Cpl Woodard OB, L/Cpl Glynn HW, L/Cpl Russell AC,
L/Cpl Hares W, LCpl Jessop AC, L/Cpl Ramsay WD, Sgt Edgar A.
L/Cpl Thompson received the following Campaign Medals: 1939-45 Star, France Germany Star, Defence Medal, CVSM and Clasp and the War Medal 1939-45.
He enlisted on 02 Feb 1940 at Edmonton, Alberta and was discharged at No. 11 District Depot in Vancouver, BC on 14 Jun 1945.
Photo and information was submitted by L/Cpl Thompson's relative, Mrs Cathy Burwood, whose Grandmother was L/Cpl Thompson's half-sister .
Web Master's Note - Official war records show that the following members of this Unit were taken POW in the Dieppe Raid: Sgt Edgar, L/Cpls Crosthwaite,
Glynn, Jessop and Russell.
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The adjacent newspaper clipping believed, to have been printed in the Calgary Herald in 1942, reports that L/Cpl Irvine Thompson of 2 Provost
Company, who was initially reported missing in action during the ill fated Dieppe raid, was actually wounded in action and later re-patriated back to England.