| 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: December 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Lt Col A.D. Taylor, DSO., MC. |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | A hard frost overnight, contd to freeze most of the day. Froggy again, but cleared a little later in the day.O.C. 'B' Sqn took up posn as O.P. before daylight in the house 738898. One Tp of 'B' Sqn and two 95mm tks from FHQ took up firing posns in the sand dunes about 734907 in order to carry out shoot on OOL area. Owing to the bad visibility no shoot could take place until about 1500hrs. Around this time a large number of shells were put into the area but nothing came back. In the afternoon, Recce Tp under comd Lt. Sparrow, took over its posn in 1st Herefords sector. |
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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