On August 31, 2023, over 80 years after my grandfather, John Paley Parrish, wore it as he landed on Blue Beach for the raid on Dieppe, his helmet will be back in Canada. Let me start at the beginning. My maternal grandfather, John Paley Parrish, was a member of the Royal Regiment of Canada and fought in Operation Jubilee. On August 19, 1942, he, along with nearly five hundred other Canadians, landed on Blue Beach in the town of Puys. John was quickly taken prisoner (when he landed on the beach there was a German solider with a gun and my grandfather 'went quietly') and spent 971 days as a prisoner of war. That information took some time to verify and as a result my grandmother, Catherine, was advised that he was missing and presumed dead (not any surprise given the number of casualties that day) and spent six months thinking he had not survived before receiving word from the Red Cross that he had been taken prisoner. We knew from what he did share after the war, papers that we still have, and what we can surmise that he: onever ate turnip again as that was a staple in the POW camp, oworked on a farm so was fortunate to be outside, ohad been in the "Dieppe March" and "Hunger March", owas shackled according to the letter from the War Claims Commission for 120 days, owas given $397.80 in 1954 as restitution for this and the other suffering he endured as a POW, ohe was made to stack the dead bodies of his comrades and the German soldiers who were killed on Blue Beach, osaw his brother, Edward Parrish, only twice during his time as a POW even though they were imprisoned at the same camp (his brother was a Corporal so was housed in a different camp), and osuffered from what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that resulted in alcoholism that contributed to his early death at 54 in 1968. Through a connection with the non-profit research project, Dieppe Blue Beach - Every Man Remembered (https://www.dieppebluebeach.ca), honouring the soldiers of The Royal Regiment of Canada who participated in the ...