The Canadians were to cross by a water channel close to the causeway in the east. Was planned with Commandos landing at Westkapelle in the west of the island andĪt Flushing in the south. Virtually cleared and the time was right for the assault of Walcheren itself. By the end of the month the Germans had been cornered in Zeebrugge, surrendering on NovemberĢ. Some 10 days later the Canadians began attacking along the isthmus breaking into the Breskens The giving priority to opening the River Scheldt to Allied With the failure of Market Garden, Montgomery issued a directive on [See 'The Calagary Highlanders' below for more information on this His forcesĭid advance north-westwards from Antwerp and approached Walcheren but were held up at the entrance of the narrow isthmus, which connected south Beveland to the mainland. Up the Antwerp area but Crerer also had orders to capture Boulogne and Calais.
The First Canadian Army, under Crerar, was ordered by Montgomery to open Its formidable array of weaponry was garrisoned by the Fifteenth German Army. There was, consequently, no priority given to securing theĪpproaches to Antwerp, which would require the island fortress of Walcheren toīe neutralised. The prospect of shortening the war by opening a clear route to Including the Rhine at Arnhem, in an operation code-named Market Garden. Montgomery's attention at the time was on securing several bridge crossings,
It was urgently needed to supply the advancing Allied armies as they movedĪntwerp and its port had fallen to Dempsey's 2nd British Army in early Septemberġ944. River Scheldt blocking Allied access to the captured port of Antwerp some 60 kilometres inland. The fortified island stood at the mouth of the Invasion of the Dutch Island of Walcheren, was a major Combined Operation's amphibious landing againstĮntrenched German defensive positions. Operation Infatuate, the codename for the Operation Infatuate, Walcheren - 1 to 8 November 1944
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