Memorial Events 2025

Mike Sauvage and his wife Karen attended a memory days  memorial service at Association Au Marins held at the Cenotaph at Pointe St Mathieu near  Plugonvelin in Brittany where the names of the crew members lost on Mikes fathers ship Chasseur 5 Carentan were read out

May 29th Marvins Yard Cowes

 Descendants who were able to attend were invited by the owner to visit Marvins Yard where the Chasseurs were based from February 1941

L to R Robert Le goff, John Le Goff, Christine Delannoy Jackie Hough (nee Quesnee) 

Michel L'hours and Sam Fulford (owner of the yard) Behind Ken Wheeler (local historian)

July 13th Chasseur 8 Rennes

 Flowers were laid by Michel L’Hours and Margaret Prior (Friends of O.R.P. Blyskawica Society) at the Cowes Memorial in remembrance of the loss of chasseur 8 Rennes

A list of the crew members lost was posted alongside the memorial plaque.

July 20th Shanklin Chine Isle of Wight

A Royal Marines memorial service was held at Shanklin Chine to commemorate those

men who trained on the Isle of Wight in preparation for Operation Jubilee, the Dieppe raid.

A wreath was laid by Michel L’Hours son of Pierre L’Hours and Jackie Hough daughter of Albert Quesnee in memory of the Free French Navy who transported the Royal Marines and Canadian Infantry to Dieppe, gave covering fire  and smokescreened the the raid and assisted in the recovery of many troops

August 19th Dieppe

A Free French descendants party accompanied the Royal Marines 1942-46 Association

to Dieppe to commemorate the 83^rd anniversary of the raid. A wreath was laid by Michel L’Hours Son of Pierre L’Hours and Jackie Hough daughter of Albert Quesnee both were crew on Chasseur 10 Bayonne during the raid

December 21st Chasseur 5 Carentan

A wreath was laid by Michel L’Hours and his wife Janice to commemorate the Loss of Chasseur 5 Carentan which capsized during a storm on the same day in 1943

A plan to post a crew list was abandoned due to the low temperature