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
	30		A cold dull day. Regt, less 'B' Sqn, moved out at first light and took up similar posns to those occupied on the previous day. About 0900hrs three enemy 8 whd Armd Cars were located about X tracks 678160. One of these was knocked out by Sgt Seawright, 3rd Tp 'C' Sqn from a range of about 1200yds, the remaing two got away. Sqns remained in same posns until about middle of the afternoon when they were then moved fwd, 'A' Sqn to general line of 16 Northing grid line, 'C' Sqn Echeloned back with its right about the X tracks 676166 and its left at the track junc 688178. About 1600hrs Lt. Butler located an enemy Mk.IV tk on the road about 682148. A Challenger tk of 'C' Sqn was sent fwd with him to try and get into a posn from which it could knock this out. This was succesfully done, but unfortunately after one shot had been fired which just missed, the gun failed to run out and could not be fired again. Before another tk could be brought up to complete the job, the area was smoked off owing to a small attack by a Coy of 9 Cameronians supported by Churchill tks of 6 Gds Tank Bde. The succes of the previous evening was therefore unfortunately not repeated. After this Sqns moved back and harboured for the night in their previous locations. The Regt1 harbour area was shelled for 2½ hrs during the night, fortunately no casualties were incurred although there were some very close misses. It transpired that this shelling was done by a Bty of 15(S)Div which fired some 250 shells into our harbour in the course of the night. During the day 46 Bde of 15(S) Div attacked astride the road DEURNE - LIESSEL and reached posns as follwos:- 9 Cameronians in heath area 6716, 7 Seaforths astride the road in area LOON 6615, 6 KOSB in area 6517.

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

Disclaimer: This War Diary is based on its original, but typos might be corrected. Locations are calculated, so might not be in the correct place. For historical research, always check the originals.

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