Major Ralph Young
Royal Regiment of Canada

It has been a wonderful experience for me to have had the honour of commanding the Bn these past few weeks, and particularly those memorable days in Dieppe, which to me appear extremely important in the history of the Regt, marking as it does our initial battle in this war and its successful—though hard, and sometimes bitter—days, which seem to conclude a particular phase in this vast operation.

(Young to Lt-Col. E.H. Jones, 7 Sept 1944)

Born in Toronto on 9 July 1910, Ralph Grasett Young, was a commissioned officer with the 10th Royal Grenadier since 1934, redesignated the Royal Regiment of Canada in 1936. Just over one month after the regiment landed in France, on 14 July 1944, Young assumed command from Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Anderson, who had been accidently wounded. Later that day, the regiment suffered a destructive accidental bombing by Allied planes.

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