WO 171/1387 - 2 Royal Warwickshire Regiment - July 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: 2nd Bn The Royal Warwickshire Regt
Month and Year: July 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt-Col. D.L.A. Gibbs, DSO

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	8		Op 'Charnwood’- 2 KSLI took up a position at 0130 hours in the thickly wooded low ground in front of our position, to cover the Bde Start Line. The Leading Coys reached their Start Line, 400 yds from the North edge of LEBISEY WOOD by 0430 hours, without much def fire coming down, under heavy barrage from the Corps Arty. About 0440 hours, heavy def fire started coming down on the ground North of LEBISEY WOOD, causing Casualties to the Reserve Coys forming up, and the Leading Coys moving up behind the barrage. The Leading Coys were able to keep well up with our own barrage and did not get very much opposition from the small arms fire, most of the Germans being unable to get out of their positions after our barrage had passed over them and any positions that did open up were quickly dealt with. 'D' and 'C' Coys reached their objective on the South side of LEBISEY WOOD by about 0600 hours and shortly before this time, the Germans started putting down heavy mortar and arty fire on the wood. The two Tps of tks had a very difficult passage over the tk obstacle in their track, but they came up behind the Reserve Companies and proved of great assistance in dealing with isoIated German Positions which were still holding out in the rear of the Leading Companies.

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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