WO 171/846 - 15-19 The King Royal Hussars - September 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: 15th/19th Hussars
Month and Year: September 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt Col A.D. Taylor, MC.

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	18		A dull morning followed a wet night but the day improved and became a fine and sunny afternoon and evening. 'B' Sqn adv early in support of the Dorsets up the main road up to VALKENWAARD and remained there for the day without further activity. 'C' Sqn carried out minor operations in support of the Devons clearing the woods to each side of the Centre Line during the day. Fwd tps of the Gds Armd Div met considerable opposition South of EINDHOVEN, about AALST 3213 and did not succeed in getting forward into EINDHOVEN until very late in the evening. Just after dark the br hd and area of the bridge was attacked for about 20 mins by enemy aircraft dropping a large number of anti personnel bombs and a few bigger bombs. No casualties were suffered but some damage was done to our tpt vehs. Orders were received in the evening for the Regt to adv early the following morning. 'A' Sqn with 'A' Sqn The Royals were detached to be under comd 506 US Para Regt (Col. Sink) at EINDHOVEN. Regt less 'A' Sqn with under comd 86 Bty Fd Regt to move to area ZON 4426 to be under comd 101 US Airborne Div (Maj-Gen Maxwell DTaylor).

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Mia Litjens.

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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