NAZI WOUNDED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 198, 22 August 1942, Page 5

NAZI WOUNDED

DIEPPE THOUSANDS

Auckland Pressman Hit In

Operations

Bnlted Press Association—Copyright. Rec. 2.30 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 21. One of the two Press correspondents wounded at the Dieppe raid was Mr. Wallace (Mac) Reyburn, an Aucklander, who was representing the Montreal Standard. He was slightly wounded in the thigh and shoulder.

Tenth man ashore at Dieppe, Wallace Reyburn was war correspondent for the Montreal Standard and is the son of an Auckland dentist. Mr. W. R. Reyburn. He was formerly on the staff of the New Zealand Herald. Mr. Reyburn accompanied the first assault party landing at Pourville, on the right flank. He stayed ashore for 6i hours in the thick of the heaviest fighting. He was slightlv wounded early in the morning by a mortar shell, but was at work to-dav.

"When the evacuation order was received we had to run 300 yards to the beach through a perfect inferno of artillery and mortar fire and also tremendous air strafing," he said. "I do not know how we reached the landing craft safely. The scene on the beach reminded me of the pictures of Dunkirk. The town was ablaze. Hundreds of men were wading to the boats. The sky was full of planes and shell bursts. We scrambled on to the landing craft, but it sank beneath us. We swam to another, which also sank. Then a flak ship picked us up and transferred us to a destroyer." Mr. Reyburn landed in England in his underwear. Wounded Germans Beach Paris Moscow radio, quoting a Geneva report, said that on Wednesday night ambulance trains with 700 German wounded passed through Paris from Dieppe. More than 3000 more German wounded are at Rouen awaiting transfer to other towns. The Germans arrested 200 French in Dieppe after the raid, "due to the hostile attitude of certain French people toward the German troops." De Brinon, the Vichy representative in Paris, stated that the French civilian death roll at Dieppe was now 36. The raid caused extensive material damage. He said the Germans estimate that 3500 British were killed.

The Evening News says: "Because tanks which set out for Dieppe were landed back in England, some people believed we were able to re-embark some of the tanks which landed in France. This is not true. If we had not lost a fairly large number of landing craft it might have been possible to get off the tanks, but it was a case of men before tanks. There was no room for both."

Mr. Wallace Reyburn is the only son of Mr. W. R. Reyburn, the well-known Auckland dentist. He was bom in Auckland and attended the Grammar School and the Auckland University College. After being engaged in journalism for a time he left about eight years ago for England, where he followed his journalistic career, later going to Canada. From there he returned to England as a war correspondent.