MERRITT, Charles Cecil Ingersoll
Lieutenant Colonel, The South Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Infantry Corps
London Gazetted on 2nd October 1942
Born in Vancouver, Canada on the 10th November 1908
Died in July 2000. (Reported Daily Telegraph 18th July 2000)
Memorials at - not known
Digest of Citation reads:
On 19th August 1942 at Dieppe, France, Lieutenant Colonel Merritt's unit had to advance across a bridge swept by heavy machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire. The first parties had mostly been destroyed but the Colonel rushed forward and personally led the survivors of at least four parties, in turn, across the bridge, then led them in successful attacks on German pill-boxes. Although twice wounded he continued to direct the unit's operations and having collected bren and tommy guns, prepared a defensive position to cover the withdrawal from the beach.