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
	20		B Sqn were given the task of recceing Westwards between the WAAL and the MEUSE and also SOUTH of the MEUSE. They had a very satisfactory day's work: they recced 2 aerodrome sites at GRAVE and further to the WEST and they found a vast food store - the store for all German Army, WEST, at OSS. They shot up a lot of Germans crossing the various ferries and also had a good shoot against a convoy of barges led by a tug which was flying the Nazi flag. The barges were beached and the tug sank. In the afternoon an idea materialized that it might be possible to slip some Scout Cs over the WAAL ferry at TIEL in an endeavour to get contact with 1st Brit Airborne Div at ARNHEM but the ferry boat was the wrong side and the far bank was held. C Sqn were given the task of a defensive recce S.E. towards MOOK and on the SOUTH side of the MEUSE to CUYK to report on the state of bridges and ferries and to find out enemy intentions in that area. This was carried out by 2 Tps. A and D Sqns completed their escort duties by the early afternoon. During the evening Grenadier Gds Gp and U.S. Airborne tps captured the 2 bridges over the WAAL at NIJMEGEN intact.

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

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