WO 171/691 - 159 Infantry Brigade - December 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: HQ 159 Infantry Brigade
Month and Year: December 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Brigadier J.B. Churcher

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
B.L.A.	1		During the day the 4 Ksli took over from 4 Mon locns as follows: Bde Hq 853194, 3 Mon 848184, 4 Ksli 885189, 8 Rb 884232, 1 Hereford 884168. By the end of the day a further 35 Pow were brought in by the Mons, 8 being sent by Medical channels. The total bag being 45 incl the Coy Comd. All identified as 6 and 5 Coy of Grassmehl. On further investigations, 3 Mons losses were even higher; a total of 8 Offrs killed and 2 wounded, whilst 30 men killed and 80 wounded. This high number has been put down to the fact that the men are new and very untrained, and as soon as their leader was wounded, they all sat down and did nothing. Some of the reinforcements being youngsters with little or no trg with no experience of battle. Little activity was reported during the day.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Pim van Gelder.

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