| Instructions regarding War Diaries and Intelligence
Summaries are contained in F.S. Regs., Vol. 1.
and the Staff Manual respectively Title pages
will be prepared in manuscript. |
WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY |
Army Form C.2118 |
| Unit: 15th/19th Hussars | ||
| Month and Year: October 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Lt Col A.D. Taylor, DSO., MC. |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | […] as for previous day. A rather dark, foggy morning. Regt. moved out according to plan and adv without opposition until loading Tp of 'C' Sqn reached area […]. About here two tks of 1st Tp 'C' Sqn were knocked out by enemy A/Tk gun fire which it was impossible […] to locate but it was thought came from the South East of […]. 'C' Sqn also got […] ditched in the big […] which later reached […] country. Now that this enemy was obviously holding this area in some strength it proved difficult to adv towards the objective as the country was […] flat and […] but dotted with farmsteads about every 500 yds. Which gave […] and everyone of those […] to be held by the enemy with A/Tk guns and Inf with Bazookas, very well camouflaged and dug in. |
Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Mia Litjens.
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