Guild Recce: Dieppe, Bruneval and St. Valery
October 24 - 27, 2025
Intention:
The focus of this recce is the 1942 raiding actions undertaken at both Dieppe and Bruneval. There will be a visit to St Valery-en-Caux, where the French Army fought alongside the 51st Highland Division in June 1940.
We will travel out on the DFDS overnight ferry Friday from Newhaven to Dieppe and return Sunday night – a weekend recce. This would be Friday 24th night sailing, arriving Saturday morning, We will kick-off with a pre-breakfast special raid on Yellow Beach, and try to recreate some of the atmosphere that No 3 Commando and Peter Young must have experienced in August 1942! We will look at aspects of the No 4 Commando landing and actions on the Orange Beaches.
The Sunday will concentrate on John Frost’s Bruneval Raid.
Returning on the Sunday night ferry arriving in the wee hours of Monday 27th October. Of course that happens to be the weekend where the clocks go back!