V.C. FOR PADRE
HEROISM AT DIEPPE
RESCUE OF WOUNDED
CANADIAN’S INSPIRATION (10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. The Victoria Cross has been awarded to a Canadian Presbyterian padre, Lieutenant-Colonel John W. Foote, attcd 41. for gallantry during the epic Canadian action at Dieppe in August, 1942.
Colonel Foote, after landing on the beach under heavy fire, attached himself to a regimental aid post which was established in a slight depression on the beach and sufficient only to give cover to men lying down. Colonel Foote not only aided the medical officers with the wounded, but several times crawled out to administer morphine to the wounded and carried wounded back from the open beach.
(Joloriel Foote refused to leave in the last evacuation boat and stayed with the wounded till he was taken prisoner. The Canadians after the action said the padre was an unparalleled inspiration during the action.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21946, 14 February 1946, Page 9
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