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ETERVILLE
Calvados
- 3 km south of Caen
Hill 112, the lock of the front line south west of Caen
At
the beginning of July 1944, after a raging battle the Canadians had
conquered the plateau and the airfield of Carpiquet. From this strong
departure base, General O’Connor ordered the VIIIth Corps to
attack the key objective that lock up the front line south west of
Caen : hill 112. The Operation Jupiter starts on 10 July.
The engagement was furious on hill 112, as the 4th Battalion Dorsetshire
Regiment progressed toward Eterville with support of tanks. The town
was hardly seized that a heavy artillery and mortar shelling fell
on the British; the situation became tragic. The 4th Battalion Dorsetshire
Regiment was relieved by the 9th Battalion Cameronians in the afternoon.
At dawn of 11 July, a counter-attack of the Panzer-grenadiere 20 and
22 Regiments expelled the British troops from Eterville. But in the
course of the day, British artillery stormed the Germans who withdrew
from the Norman town in ruins.
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Dorset Regiment plaque
