Mounted on the outside wall of the building on the west side of the street corner.

A simple, rectangular, stone plaque inscribed in French in engraved lettering remembering the deaths of LTC Hawkins and Cpt Jones. On August 31, 1944, an American jeep entered the village with Lt Col Jesse Martin Hawkins Jr and Captain Hugh D. Jones of the 2nd American Armored Division on board.  The jeep was driven by a sergeant whose identity is not known. The Americans were caught under German fire. They hid against a wall containing a door that gave access to Mr. Truptil's farm. The two officers (Hawkins and Jones) were executed by German soldiers who shot through the door. A third soldier, the driver, managed to escape but died the next day at the Beauvais hospital in the Hotel Dieux. After the Americans were killed, the Germans set fire to the farm.

Source of information: In memoriam Capt Aquilla Calhoun "Bresles" FB page

ICI DEUX OFFICIERS AMERICAINS

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JESSE M. HAWKINS JR

CAPITAIN HUGH D. JONES

ONT ETE TUES LACHEMENT PAR LES ALLEMANDS

LE 31 AOÛT 1944

English translation:

HERE TWO AMERICAN OFFICERS

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JESSE M. HAWKINS JR.

CAPTAIN HUGH D. JONES

WERE KILLED BY THE GERMANS IN A COWARDLY MANNER

ON AUGUST 31, 1944