Numerous units were involved in the fighting around Bréville and Château Saint-Côme. The Black Watch Scots who led the assault on the Bréville hill from June 8 to 12, 1944, were decimated by mortars and machine guns ambushed on the summit.
To the right of Bréville, at the Château Saint-Côme, the Germans violently attacked the paratroopers of the 9th Battalion and the Scots in a fierce battle. The arrival of Major Hill and his Canadians enabled them to be repulsed. After another attack, the burning village was liberated on June 13.
The capture of Bréville cost hundreds of dead and wounded.
Along Route départementale 37b, the front line until August 17, 1944, in front of the entrance to the cha?teau de Saint- Co?me, three monu- ments today recall the fierce fighting that took place on this hill between British soldiers and the German soldiers of the 21st Panzer division. On either side of the British Battle of Bois-des-Monts steeple, the Dutch steeple and the statue of the Scottish fighter commemorate the involvement of the Dutch Princess Ire?ne Brigade at the end of the battle and the Black Watch Regiment on June 11, 1944. On that day, for its first engagement in Normandy, the regiment of the 51st Scottish Division lost almost 200 men.