Very good article, interesting source
http://www.boxscorenews.com/the-th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-dieppe-p906-68.htm
George Fosty is the co-author of the books: Splendid Is The Sun: The 5,000 Year History of Hockey, Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes 1895-1925, and Footie's Black Book: A Guide To International Association Football. (World Cup Soccer 2010 Edition).
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Later Corporal Herman Keys recounted his experiences at the famous bridge that Col. Merritt and the others had crossed. According to Cpl. Keys, he had ended up under the bridge firing on German emplacements on the other side of the river. At one point, a chicken shed caught on fire next to him. He recounted how he continued to fire on the enemy with one hand holding his Bren Gun, all-the-while trying to rescue the squawking chickens from the burning building with the other hand. For a kid raised on a farm in Saskatchewan, he admitted that the whole episode was surreal. There he was, trying to kill Germans, all-the-while liberating a shed full of French chickens.
http://www.boxscorenews.com/the-th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-dieppe-p906-68.htm
George Fosty is the co-author of the books: Splendid Is The Sun: The 5,000 Year History of Hockey, Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes 1895-1925, and Footie's Black Book: A Guide To International Association Football. (World Cup Soccer 2010 Edition).
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Later Corporal Herman Keys recounted his experiences at the famous bridge that Col. Merritt and the others had crossed. According to Cpl. Keys, he had ended up under the bridge firing on German emplacements on the other side of the river. At one point, a chicken shed caught on fire next to him. He recounted how he continued to fire on the enemy with one hand holding his Bren Gun, all-the-while trying to rescue the squawking chickens from the burning building with the other hand. For a kid raised on a farm in Saskatchewan, he admitted that the whole episode was surreal. There he was, trying to kill Germans, all-the-while liberating a shed full of French chickens.