This road commemorates the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. It is a part of the National Field of Honour cemetery.
The Battle of the Falaise Pocket, fought during the Second World War from August 12-21, 1944, was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. Taking its name from the pocket around the town of Falaise within which Army Group B, consisting of the German Seventh and Fifth Panzer Armies became encircled by the advancing Western Allies, the battle is also referred to as the Falaise Gap after the corridor which the Germans sought to maintain to allow their escape. Two-thirds of Falaise was destroyed before the town was taken by a combined force of Canadian and Polish troops of the Canadian First Army. The battle resulted in the destruction of the bulk of Germany’s forces west of the River Seine and opened the way to Paris and the German border.
