WO 171/678 - 153 Infantry Brigade - December 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: HQ 153 Inf Bde
Month and Year: December 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Brig J.R. Sinclair, DSO

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
612717	1		At 1000 hrs Major G. Smith Cunningham O.C. 'B' Coy 5 Black Watch was ambushed while walking around his coy area in OPHUESDEN 5472 with his Coy 2IC. A German patrol had occupied a house in between the two fwd pls of ‘B’ Coy. Major Smith Cunningham was fired on and took cover. His 2IC, who took cover on the other side of the rd managed to crawl back and to organize a fighting patrol to drive the enemy out. The fighting patrol returned after an hour’s search having found the coy comd’s bonnet and bloodstains but no trace of the coy comd himself or of the German patrol. Major G. Smith Cunningham was reported as a PW two days later by radio Arnhem. At 1900 hrs an evader from 1st Airborne Div and a member of the Dutch Resistance Movement crossed the Neder Rhein in a small boat without interference from German patrols. They reported to ‘B’ Coy 1 Gordons and were evacuated to Div.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

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