Brigadier Churchill Mann
8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Hussars)
7th Infantry Brigade

It was like watching a demonstration of tracer firing punctuated with the flash and crash of guns from both sides and although it was a thrilling and spectacular display, it filled us with foreboding as we all realized that the chance of our effecting surprise was greatly diminished.

(Mann, “Notes on Dieppe,” 1942)

Born on 6 September 1904 in Nutley, New Jersey and raised in Toronto, Clarence Churchill Mann was an RMC graduate, horseman and captain in the Royal Canadian Dragoons. He was attached to the headquarters staff of 1st Division and acted an instructor at the first Canadian staff college in England before being appointed commanding officer the newly formed 8th Reconnaissance Battalion in March 1941.

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