WO 171/607 - 6 Guards Tank Brigade - October 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: 6th Guards Tank Brigade
Month and Year: October 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Brigadier W.D.C. Greenacre, M.V.O.

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	31	1600	At 1600 hrs this evening dispositions were as follows – fwd tps of 227 Bde (10 HLI) had cleared the enemy from wood in 6409 ; 46 Bde had 6 KOSB at 678137 ; 44 Bde had reached 64 Easting and 12 Northing. There was little opportunity for the tk bns but HQ 4 Tk Gren Gds moved down to 608131 and HQ 3 Tk SG to 611141. 4 Tk Coldm Gds remained at their former location 653183. The enemy’s arty fire is more accurate and producing more effective concs than on any sector we have yet known. His aircraft too are in greater evidence. For the last two nights there have been brief raids on area HELMOND.

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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