Dieppe at 75: Remembering the Canadian chaplain who earned a Victoria Cross

Seventy-five years ago, as the main Canadian assault force fought its way onto the beaches of Dieppe under blistering German machine gunfire, a determined chaplain was with them.
For months after the ill-fated raid, the unnamed chaplain was known only as “Padre X.”
Canadian soldiers who survived the fiasco told stories about the mysterious padre’s courage that day: how he delivered first-aid and morphine to dozens of injured soldiers; how he repeatedly exposed himself to heavy