15th Scottish Division Memorial, Best, Holland

Following the Market Garden landings of 17 September 1944 and the 101st Airborne Division's fighting to capture the bridge at Best, the struggle to take the town was continued by the 15th Division on 20th September. Then came a fierce battle lasting another month. Liberation was achieved on 24 October but 120 young Scottish soldiers were killed. The situation was stabilised by the arrival of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade but, as the Germans had evacuated all civilians and the buildings were now mostly rubble, Best was empty.The Memorial is in a small park, the Koctshuistuin (literally cow's garden or house). The imaginative structure was designed by Antoinette Briet and was inauguarated on 28 October 1994. Using steel and stone it represents a tartan pattern of boxes through the middle of which three representative figures are jumping to freedom

101st Achieved Airborne Antoinette Continued Divisions Evacuated Failed Imaginative Landings Lasting Literally Mostly Representative Represents Situation Stabilised Tartan

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