| 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: 151st (A.Y.) Field Regiment, R.A. | ||
| Month and Year: November 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. A.P. Trevor, R.A. |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | The policy being to shoot as little as possible from the permanent posns, four alterrative bty posns were recced and surveyed E of the main posn in the SWOLGE HEIDE. These to be occupied by one ‘sniping’ bty daily. 123 Bty OPs had good obervation pn river line E of BROEKHUIZERVORST and OIJEN and reported enemy digging. OPs movement etc on the E bank. Enemy HQ located at 913244. Enemy observed ‘fiddling’ with boats on the river and the sound of a Diesel engine heard on the sunken tramway running parallel with the E bank. It was only possible to occupy an OP at OIJEN by night. |
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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