A Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque, unveiled in , speaks to the role of units of the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade in the full frontal attack over the causeway. On Nov. Landings by British Commandos of the 4th Commando Brigade eventually sealed the fate of the German defense on Walcheren Island, attacking from seaward at Flushing and Westkapelle.
The 3-hectare Liberation Park features bunkers, a bailey bridge, roadblocks, a Sherman tank, a temporary church etc. A monument commemorates the landing of a successful offensive using with almost 90 amphibious vehicles such as Buffaloes and Terrapins by the North Nova Scotia Highlanders at Hoofdplaat and by the Highland Light Infantry of Canada at Biervliet on Oct.
After successfully establishing a bridgehead, troops advanced in the direction of Knokke. The memorial, next to the bridge named "Hickman brug", is in honour of Sergeant John Lockhart Hickman of the Royal Canadian Engineers, who was killed by mortar fire while the unit he commanded was building a Bailey bridge over a canal at Retranchement on Oct.
The role of engineering units in the Battle of the Scheldt was crucial in an area, criss-crossed with canals and flooded land.
Retranchement is the Western-most coastal village of the Netherlands. Once the fighting on the ground was finished by 8 November, the Scheldt was then cleared of mines, and on 28 November the first convoy of Allied cargo ships entered the port of Antwerp, led by the Canadian-built freighter Fort Cataraqui.
