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
	30		For to-day’s operation against the small German salient (made by 9 Pz Div). 15 (S) Div and the Bde were deployed on the 2 axes of the German advance as follows – 227 Bde with in support 3 Tk SG conc in area ASTEN ; 44 Bde in area immediately WEST of LIESEL to prevent an enemy expansion in this direction ; 46 Bde were NORTH of 44 Bde preparatory to moving up on its left flank. Late last night it was decided that 4 Tk Gren Gds would support 46 Bde and 4 Tk Coldm Gds 44 Bde. Limited advs were made during the day and by dark our posns were improved as follows - 4 Tk Gren Gds in area 6113, 4 Tk Coldm Gds in area 6518, 3 Tk SG in area 6114. There has been news of the movt in this direction of another Pz Div (116) but at the moment the enemy’s op can best be described as a vast raid with the possible object of diverting our forces from the ANTWERP sector.

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

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