| 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: 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards. | ||
| Month and Year: September 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. R.G. Byron |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | Major S.R.M. Jenkins went back to 2nd Army via the Forward Delivery Squadrons. The day spent quietly, but there were no baths or cinemas possible because a number of the enemy (about 14) during the night swam 15 miles down the river and blew a NIJMEGEN Bridge. These Bosche apparently had been trained at the one man submarine school in VENICE brought and briefed at UTRECHT, equipped with rubber swim suits, oxygen apparatus and extensions in water proof containers. They swam nearly all the way for 15 miles, then placed their charges, and then swam on to turn into the wrong creek. Most of them were taken Prisoner of War in the hands of the Recce Regiment. |
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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