WO 171/1387 - 2 Royal Warwickshire Regiment - September 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: 2nd Bn The Royal Warwickshire Regt
Month and Year: September 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer:

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	24		During the previous night patrols had brought in a few German stragglers and had found that the Germans were holding a position in some strength astride the road ASTEN - MEIJEL, about one-thousend yards from ASTEN, and 'D' Coy was ordered to go out and clear up this pocket of resistance.'D' Coy started their attack at 1500 hours behind concentrations put down by 7 FD Regt. They immediatly came under a certain amount of shell fire and mortar fire and were held up by a considerable amount of small arms from the area of HEUSDEN. They were only able to make very slow progress in the face of this fire and by nightfall, had been able to get only a footing in the village of HEUSDEN. They were ordered to withdraw as soon as it got dark and the village was subjected to very heavy artillery concentrations. During the night patrols found out that the Germans had had enough and had withdrawn right back to the east of the canal DEURNE east of MEIJEL. 'D' Coy had the following casualties during the day:- Killed - Lts DSB Roberts & RJ Keast (Cdn Army) and two Other Ranks Wounded - twelve Other Ranks

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Theo Vervoort.

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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