Capture

By mid-afternoon, the disaster was complete.

No major objectives of the raid were accomplished. A total of 3,623 of the 5,086 men who made it ashore were either killed, wounded, or captured. The air force lost 96 aircraft while the Royal Navy lost 33 landing craft and one destroyer.

Chub was one of 1946 men who were captured that day.

For the next 32 months, he kept a diary of his experience. Here's how he described the day of his capture:

I was taken about 11 AM on August 19, 1942, four KM from Dieppe. There was six of us together, and our officer, Lt. Thompson, was taken a few minutes later. ... We spent most of the day bringing in our wounded, also theirs. They let us look after our own first. Late in the PM we were marched into Dieppe just in time to catch the rest of the prisoners as they were being marched off to the first nights camp about 15 miles away where we were given some tea and a loaf of bread.The next PM we were loaded on a train in box cars and travelled all night to another camp in France where we were searched and questioned. The eats were pretty scarce at first but the French Red Cross sent in some oat meal and some fresh vegetables which helped a lot. We were kept there for about 10 days when we were again loaded into box cars (40 to a car) and rode 4 days to our permanent camp at Lamsdorf, Germany.

Below is a pix of Iain standing beside the kind of box car that was used to transport Chub and the other POWs to Lamsddorf, in what's now southern Poland.