Help researching Canadians in Sussex

[Jo Grocott]

Hi everyone. I am currently volunteering at Michelham Priory in East Sussex, England and have been researching the activities that took place there during WW2.

We know that the following brigades were stationed there during the war, and we are trying to look further into their activities:

5th Canadian Infantry Brigade (4 Jul 1941 to 11 Aug 1941 and again 14th Oct 1941 to 31st Jul 1942)
8th Canadian Infantry Brigade (1st Aug 1942 to 9th Aug 1942)
9th Field Ambulance RCAMC (9th Aug 1942 to 14th Apr 1943)
5th Field Ambulance RCAMC (14th Apr 1943 to 5th May 1943)

We would like to confirm if either the 5th or 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade were involved in the Dieppe raid?
Also, can anyone give me more details on what the role of the Field Ambulance RCAMC was? Were they assisting with Canadian casualties / British army casualties / civilian population? We know that 8 members of the 9th Field Ambulance RCAMC were killed in the nearby town of Eastbourne on the night of the 11th August 1942 in an air raid, and we were wondering if they would have come from Michelham to assist in the air raid, or if the group may have been split up with some based at Michelham and some at Eastbourne?

Any information at all about the activities of these brigades during this time would be most useful.

I look forward to hearing your replies.