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Photo 1 Text Heading Photo 1 Text This is a central plaque in the perminant memeorial gardens down by the beach. On the ground on either side of this plaque are two large maple leaves made of flowers. This is their regular memorial. It is not part of the extra celebration that happened this August for the 6oth anniversary.	Photo 1 File Name
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Photo 2 Text Heading Photo 2 Text In the centre of the memorial garden is this pillar. The different areas chronicle the relationship between Dieppe and Canada over the years. You should be able to see the Dieppe Raid and the liberation of Dieppe by the Canadians.	Photo 2 File Name
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Photo 3 Text Heading Photo 3 Text Further along in the garden is this monument to the sacrifce of Canadians.	Photo 3 File Name
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Photo 4 Text Heading Photo 4 Text The Canadian War Graves at Dieppe.	Photo 4 File Name
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Photo 5 Text Heading Photo 5 Text Each Common Wealth War Graves Site has a visitors book that you can sign and leave comments in. This is my husband Andrew signing the book. Behind him is the dedication of this land to Canada in perpetuity for their sacrifice.	Photo 5 File Name
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Photo 6 Text Heading Photo 6 Text While we were visiting the site we learned that the grade 5 class from the local school comes out to the cemetary on fridays. They come to the cemetary to wash all of the headstones and to maintain the graves of the men who died for thier freedom.	Photo 6 File Name
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Photo 7 Text Heading Photo 7 Text Please notice the age and the inscription. As I looked at the graves, what I noticed is that most of these boys were between the ages of 19 and 26. In any war it is always the youth who are sent to fight and die.	Photo 7 File Name
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Photo 8 Text Heading Photo 8 Text Please note the inscription again. This young man was one of the older men honoured here. Very few were in their thirties and alomst no one was in their forties. One other grave that I found bears the family name of my brother in law, Langevin.	Photo 8 File Name

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