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		One Pl of 'A' Coy was having difficulty with the German Command Post, which was an underground rabbit warren, but with the assistance of fire from an A tk gun on a tank, this wan quickly cleared up. The road was found to be mined, but was cleared up by the REs by 0730 hours and the Bn Sp Arms were told to come up. The position was quickly consolidated. Enemy mortar and shell fire continued to be very heavy during the morning. At 1145 hours 'A' Company Gp went forward to take the high ground about 1,000 yards South of the wood. They reached this position without much opposition, but were very heavily shelled and mortared as soon as they got on to the objective, including several salvos from German multi-barrelled mortars. However, they held on to this position until 1500 hours, when 2 KSLI went through them to take up a position on the high ground overlooking CAEN. During this very successful attack it was estimated that the German Bn of the GAF Div holding the position was completely destroyed.The Bn’s Casualties were:-

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

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