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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
Unit: HQ 185 Inf Bde (incl Def Pl)
Month and Year: December 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Brig. E.L. Bols, DSO.
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
19   Patrol of 2 Warwick killed one member of an enemy patrol. No useful identification as man had no documents on him. A drive of all the woods in the bde area failed to produce anything more than two civs. In the evening one of the Dutch coys observed a patrol of about 6 Germans on our side of the river. A party from 1 Norfolk went out to capture them but could find no sign of them.

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.