WO 171/607 - 6 Guards Tank Brigade - August 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: August 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Brigadier G.L. Verney, M.V.O.

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	6		An attack was put in with 4 Tk. Coldm. Gds. supporting 46 Bde on to objectives COURNEY (8040) and Pt. 232 (8039). The latter was reached by 2 Gordons, but the village was strongly defended. 46 Bde. supported by 3 Tk. Scots Gds. and 1 sqn. 4 Tk. Gren. Gds. put in another attack directed on ESTRY. Progress here was very slow and although 1 sqn. of 3 Tk. Scots Gds. and 10 H.L.I. were in the orchard on the N.E. side of ESTRY village by 2200 hrs, yet opposition was too strong to allow complete occupation. The country was scarcely suitable for tk. defence tactics yet this sqn. remained fwd. on the outskirts of the village all that night.

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

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