WO 171/837 - 2 Household Cavalry - 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 Household Cavalry Regt.
Month and Year: September 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. H. Abel Smith

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	2		Regt less D Sqn adv from ARRAS to just WEST of DOUAI preparatory to the big push to BRUSSELS the next day. D Sqn were given the job of recceing the crossings of the SCARPE to the NE of ARRAS; The Sqn pushed forward to HEMIL LIETARD where they initially met opposition but this soon cleared up and they held the bridges there till they were taken over by the 11 Armd Div. Meanwhile A Sqn Tp co-operating with 32 Gds Bde in holding the crossing at DOUAI. Later in the evening C Sqn sent two patrols on a route recce on the two C.Ls for 3 Sep. These patrols had orders to get as far as the Belgian frontier but they started too late and the light failed them before the recce was complete.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

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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