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GAVRUS
Calvados
- 10 km south-west of Caen
The Scots crossed the river Odon
On
26 June 1944 in Normandy, the Allied Forces attacked west of Caen;
the Operation Epsom must span the river Odon in a first manoeuvre.
On 28 June the 2nd Battalion Argylls and Sutherlands Highlanders,
of the 15th Scottish Infantry Division, seized two bridges on the
river Odon near Gavrus and widened the bridgehead. But the Argylls
failed to make the junction with the 46th Infantry Brigade in Grainville.
All the night they underwent mortar shelling and were threatened of
encircling. On 29 June, the VIIIth Corps attempted to relieve the
Scots, but they were facing an attack of the 1st SS Panzer-Division.
In the afternoon the Germans took Gavrus, the Scots expelled them
at once from the town with artillery support. On 1st July, the IInd
SS Panzer-Korps failed in his last assault to clean out the bridgehead,
the front line stabilized.
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15th Scottish Infantry Division stele
15th Scottish Infantry Division stele
