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FRENOUVILLE
Calvados
- 5 km south-east of Caen
Heavy losses for the British tanks
The Field report issued by General Montgomery at the evening of 18
July 1944, about the progress of the Operation Goodwood,
was not in accordance with the battlefield, since the objectives were
not reached. The Allied Forces left more than two hundreds tanks on
the spot. The next day the British and the canadians renewed the assault.
On the west flank of the offensive, infantry of the Guards Armoured
Division captured in the end of the afternoon the hamlet of Poirier,
south of Cagny. But in front of Frenouville, a Kamfgruppe of the 12nd
SS Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend, and several 88 mm flak artillery
batteries stopped dead the British. The Germans evacuated the town
during the night. On 20 July, the British of the 32nd Guards Brigade
- Coldstream Guards, Welsh Guards and Irish Guards - liberated Frenouville,
after some delaying action had been eliminated.
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Coldstream Guards plaque
