My late Grandmother once said, to me, that the "Canadians" had a very rough time on the Dieppe raid.

I have heard it claimed, in a documentary, in recent years that the real reason for the Dieppe raid was to create a cover for "pinching" (stealing) the Germanicon Enigma code books. The claim went onto say that the large scale raid was in order to disguise the fact that the actual reason for the raid was to steal the code books. If the code books were to be taken they had to be taken in such a way that the Germans didn't realise they had been taken or the codes would be changed. However, it would seem that any attempt to obtain the Enigma codes, on this raid, were unsuccessful.