| 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 153 Inf Bde | ||
| Month and Year: November 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Brig J.R. Sinclair, DSO |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 798030 | 22 | Another rainy day. 5/7 Gordons adv during the morning with no opposition and occupied HOUT 8402. Patrols sent out frome here reported no enemy between the bn posns and the inter-bde boundary South of BAARLO 8505. The Bde area was shelled intermittently throughout the day from the previously located enemy gun posns on the East bank of the R MAAS. At 1200 hrs a Warning Order was received from Div HQ to the effect that 160 Bde would be relieving 153 Inf Bde in the near future. Recce parties from 160 Bde arrived at 1400 hrs and were directed to the bns, 2 Mons to 5/7 Gordons and 6 RWF to 5 BW. |
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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