The first battle for Hill 112 was fought at the end of Operation Epsom, when the tanks of 11th Armoured Division broke out from a bridgehead established by the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, part of 227th (Highland) Infantry Brigade 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division, at Tourmauville.Hill 112 was an intermediate objective …

The flanks of Hill 112 sweep down into a broad valley through which the river flows. Beyond was the tempting goal the Allies sought: the open plains of northern France, ideal tank country. Interspersed in the area were farms and villages, the buildings well …

It has been christened The Hill of Peace following the untiring efforts of Sergeant Gunner Albert Figg, his daughter Annette and The Hill 112 Memorial Foundation. In 1944, men from the 43rd Wessex, 53rd Welsh, 15th Scottish and 11th Armoured Divisions finally took control of one of the most strategically important battlegrounds in northern France.

Unimposing as it looked, Hill 112's tactical importance was the view it gave over the countryside to the south, west and east of Caen, and had prompted Rommel before the invasion to remark that should the Allies land in the area that “the side that controls Hill 112 will be the side that controls Lower Normandy”. With this in mind and ...

For two months, the front line rested on Hill 112, a vantage point so significant that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is quoted as declaring: “He who controls Hill 112 controls Normandy”. It was only after men from the 43rd Wessex, 53rd Welsh, 15th Scottish and 11th Armoured Divisions had finally defeated six crack SS Panzer divisions in a ...

2018年8月19日 · Frundsberg held the line westwards from Eterville, including the Château de Fontaine, the summit of Hill 112 and Le Bon Repos hamlet near Esquay. To the west of Esquay, Hohenstaufen were in the process of being relieved by 277th Infantry Division, a Wehrmacht formation. The Germans’ divisional artillery was still largely intact and had been ...

2024年7月7日 · The commanding views from Hill 112 were immediately recognised as strategically important by both sides. The struggle to take it - and hold it - led to a series of attacks and counterattacks. Tim Saunders, who has written extensively about the Normandy campaign, reconstructs the day by day struggle with many first person accounts from both ...

2021年4月22日 · Outflanked to the west and east, the 102nd Tigers and Frundsberg grenadiers abandoned Hill 112, and on the night of August 3–4 a patrol from the 53rd (Welsh) Division found the German positions empty. Peace had finally descended upon the ravaged slopes of Hill 112. The fall of Caen.

Hill 112 was a gently sloping hill of waist high cornfields and compared to the dense bocage of other parts of Normandy, quite open with good fields of fire. The gently sloping hill should dominate the table, and provide the high ground for the defenders to …

Hill 112 was the name given to an important area of high ground near Caen in Normandy. The German army wanted to keep control of the hill because it gave them a strong advantage. The British soldiers that tried to capture the hill included men from Cornwall. These men were the 5th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (DCLI ...