Gorman continues his account of the events that took him to the beach at Dieppe, France. Gorman was born June 23, Gorman left school after achieving junior matriculation. He held jobs in a bakery, a fish market and as an apprentice mechanic at Remington-Rand typewriter factory in Windsor.
After enlisting on September 16, , he took his basic training in Windsor before being moved to Camp Borden for advanced training in June, However, he and several other members of his platoon were not old enough for overseas duty. How he got around this problem is a humorous story with some rather sad results.
Now in England, stationed at Aldershot, Mr. Gorman served as a dispatch rider for a period of time while stationed at Aldershot in England.
He was asked to explain the high casualty numbers among dispatch riders while still some distance from the actual war front. Early in the moring of August 19, , events began to unfold that would lead to the Dieppe Raid. Gorman was asleep in his bed. Landing on the beach at a. Gorman oversees the set-up of radio communication equipment.
The heavy rain from mortar fire results in a serious injury to his arm. As the morning of the Dieppe Raid wore on, one of the platoons managed to enter the town of Dieppe. Feeling very vulnerable during the Dieppe Raid in the open space of the beach, it was decided to try to take refuge behind one of the nearby disabled tanks. Little could be done at the Dieppe hospital. As German Prisoners of War, the men were loaded into train boxcars for an overnight journey to a large hospital in Rouen, France for treatment by German doctors.
