Just to let everyone know I will be away for a day or so. Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow,N.S.: Thursday, 08 Oct 1942 Pictou Boy At Dieppe Flight-Lieut. George Hill, of Pictou, in a letter to his grandmother, Mrs. J.W. Arthur, High St.,Pictou, describes the operations at Dieppe in which the Fighter Squadron of which he was in command took part. He writes: "Well, I suppose you have heard all about the Dieppe show, It really was a marvellous occasion. My squadron sure had a gala day. The squadron got six confirmed and three damaged and contrary to what the papers said, I shot down the Folke Wulfs (Confirmed) and damaged another, but I may have to share one of them with my number 2 man. However, I think it was a good start." He continues: "We have quite a few boys in this squadron from the Maritimes, so in time we may become a Maritime Squadron." Previous to the taking part in the Dieppe attack, Flight-Lieut. Hill had been attached to a Bomber Training Centre in the north of Scotland, where he had been lately training an Australian squadron. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tuesday, 13 Oct 1942 "Melmerby" Anniversary Yesterday marked the fifty-first anniversary of Pictou County's most famous shipwreck, that of the British barque "Melmerby" that went ashore at what is now called Melmerby Beach at Little Harbour with much loss of life. When daylight dawned there were still several men on board the vessel and the breakers were still running high. A lifeboat from shore, under command of the late Captain Peter Graham, was launched with difficulty and brought the survivors to shore. Of the brave crew of that rescue boat there is only one known to be living today. He is ex-Councillor David A. Fraser of Elm Street. It was a thrilling episode in the marine life of this county, and one that should not be permitted to die from the memory. We have promised to reprint the details from the Eastern Chronicle files of that time and will do so shortly. In the meantime may we tender congratulations to Mr. David Fraser for his valour on that occasion in so daringly assisting in saving so many of the lives of the seamen of that wrecked vessel. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thursday, 15 Oct 1942 Canadians Back From Dieppe Scarred and battered from nine bloody, crowded hours on the shell-torn beaches of Dieppe, a near-dozen Canadian soldiers are back in Canada, bitterly resentful of the wounds that will keep them out of action for the rest of the war. With the Dieppe veterans were several hundred Canuck comrades, wounded in manoeuvers or invalided home because of poor health. The boy's returning from this war's greatest commando raid had stories to tell of heroic struggle against overwhelming odds before the cliffs and in the esplanades of the French port. :The beaches were lousy with snipers" chunky Johnny MacGillicuddy of Watford, Ont. said. He told how the Germans were waiting for the commandos as they landed, and poured a withering murderous stream of bullets into their ranks as they stormed the sandy no-man's land. Only officer with the group returning was Lieut. John Counsell of Hamilton, who spoke words of praise for his men, but said nothing about his own part in the battle, or how he received his wounds. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Carolyn Wallace