Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Na 13 June 1944, ọtụtụ n'ime Ngalaba nke 49, mgbe ihe karịrị afọ abụọ nke ọzụzụ, rutere na Normandy dị ka akụkụ nke Operation Overlord. Ngalaba ahụ bịarutere n'oge na-adịghị anya iji sonye na Agha nke Villers-Bocage, ebe onye agha nke 7th Armored Division tara ahụhụ nke ukwuu, mana esonye na ọtụtụ mgbalị iji merie.
weghara obodo Caen. Ngalaba ahụ, mgbe ọ rịgoro, etinyela aka na obere ọgụ, ọkachasị na 16 June gburugburu Tilly-sur-Seulles, ebe ndị 6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, nke 147th Brigade, tara ahụhụ ihe dị ka mmadụ 230 - 30% nke ike agha ya - n'agha ụbọchị abụọ mgbe ọ na-anwa ijide Le Parc de Boislonde. N'ikpeazụ, ndị battalion nke asaa, Dukes, n'okpuru Lieutenant Colonel John Wileey weghaara ọnọdụ ahụ. Ọrụ mbụ nke 49th dịka nkewa bịara n'oge Operation Martlet, nke mbụ nke Operation Epsom, ndị Britain nwara ijide Caen. Ọ bụ ezie na Lieutenant General Sir Richard O'Connor's VIII Corps mere mgbalị bụ isi, XXX Corps, na Ngalaba nke 49 n'okpuru njikwa, bụ iji chebe akụkụ aka nri nke VIII Corps site na ijide ugwu Rauray.