Admiral Sir John David Luce & Bar took part in which Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War?
Dieppe Raid The Dieppe Raid, also known as the Battle of Dieppe, Operation "Rutter during planning stages, and by its final official code-name Operation "Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid took place on the northern coast of France on 19 August 1942. The assault began at 5:00 a.m., and by 10:50 a.m. the Allied commanders were forced to call a retreat. Over 6,000 infantrymen, predominantly Canadian, were supported by The Calgary Regiment of the 1st Canadian Tank Brigade and a strong force of Royal Navy and smaller Royal Air Force landing contingents. It involved 5,000 Canadians, 1,000 British troops, and 50 United States Army Rangers.
John Lea (submariner) Vice-Admiral Sir John Stuart Crosbie Lea, KBE (4 June 1923 - 20 May 2015) was a Royal Navy officer who spent most of his career in submarines. Lea trained as an engineer but before he finished, and still aged only 20, saw action on the Sheffield off the Amalfi coast when the ship shelled German positions, and on the Glasgow as part of Operation Stonewall. In the late 1960s, he became deputy superintendent of the Clyde submarine base where his job was to prepare for the introduction of Polaris missile-firing submarines.