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WAR DIARY
or
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
Army Form C.2118
Unit: HQ 185 Inf Bde
Month and Year: September 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Brigadier E.L. Bols
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
ASTEN 23   Recce parties moved early to ASTEN in N BRABANT and conferred under shellfire. The bns came in and were disposed in very tight defence of the bridge. Bde was as near the front as it could possibly be, in a miserable monastery garden that was the particular target of enemy shells.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com.

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.