Memorial Canadian Battle of Normandy Foundation

Text on the memorial:

On 9 July 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, supported by the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, launched the attack which was to liberate the centre of Caen, so heavily bombed and shelled by the Allies in the previous weeks. By noon, elements of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, supported by tanks of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment, had reached this square and Canadian soldiers were shaking hands with jubilant citizens. By that evening the Canadians and the 3rd British Infantry Division on their left, supported by members of the French Resistance, had freed most of the shattered city.

In the weeks before Caen was liberated some 3000 of its residents died under Allied bombardment and over 3500 Canadian and British soldiers had been killed or wounded by enemy action.

Let us remember with gratitude the sacrifice all those men and women made for our freedom today.

This plaque was placed here by the Canadian Battle of Normandy Foundation on 9 July 1994 - the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Caen - in the presence of the Senator Mayor Caen and the Canadian Ambassador to France.

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Source

• Text: Randy Brandt
• Photos: Randy Brandt