Petitville
Troarn
5-span masonry arch bridge 110ft long.
Major Roseveare Bridge
The raid of Major Roseveare into German lines.
On June 6th the 8th Parachute Bn dropped east of River Orne at around 04.00 am.
Gathering near Troarn; Major TimRoseveare RE embarks with Lt. David Breesen RE and 7 sapers into a jeep and its trailer.
The team crosses the town under German fire which, by miracle, does not hit the explosives packed into the trailer.
Reaching the bridge in Troarn, the paras blow it up quickly and withdraw toward Le Mesnil. The front line stabilises until 18 July when the Allied forces launch offensive «Goodwood» east of Caen, but Troarn is not taken.
It is only on 17 August that the 41th Royal Marine Commando enters in Troarn, evacuated by the retreating Germans.