WO 171/846 - 15-19 The King Royal Hussars - October 1944

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
	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	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
Holland	19		If therefore tks adv across the open country they were fired at by A/Tk guns generally from several directions and if they tried to take cover from these in the vicinity of any of the farmsteads they were fired at on close range by enemy Inf with Bazookas. The situation was made more difficult by the fact that no Inf could be made available to accompany the Regt. After these two tks of 'C' Sqn had been knocked out all likely enemy strong points in the vicinity were engaged with fire. It proved difficult to get fwd either further North or further South. 'B' Sqn to the North had reached the farms at 758?13 and 761212 and located certain enemy guns out to their East. It was difficult for them to get fwd as the country in front of them was very open and intersected by dykes.It was also considered undesirable to try to work round to the South owing to the boggy nature of the country and the enemy opposition known to be in the thick woods further South and suspected down the West of the road running to AMERICA. After a lot of fire had been put down on suspected posns of enemy guns therefore, 'A' Sqn, who had been called fwd and used as protection to the right and rear in the area 748205, were ordered to pass through 'C' Sqn and endeavour to adv onto the objective. 'C' Sqn were ordered to watch the flank to the South and South West. 2 Tp 'A' Sqn - Lt. M. Caroe, adv well and reached the farmstead St. Petrus Hoeve 768212, where two enemy guns had been knocked out. 4th Tp 'A' Sqn - 7907484 Sgt Jackson L. was then ordered to adv on the right of the 2nd Tp to the objective but in trying to do so Sgt Jackson's tk was knocked out in the same area as the two 'C' Sqn tks had been hit earlier in the day. The posn of the gun which fired on this, was still not definately located. In spite of this 'C' Sqn gradually fought their way forward and reached the line of the road running North from the objective and the Southern end of the orchard 774209 and got down as far as the track junc 778207. The Sqn was ordered to endeavour to consolidate on the objective facing South and East.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Mia Litjens.

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