WO 171/1387 - 2 Royal Warwickshire Regiment - December 1944

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	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Unit: 2nd Bn The Royal Warwickshire Regt
Month and Year: December 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer:

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	16		The battallion moved in MT to take over from 8 RB, 11 Arm Div, this being the third time the battallion had take over the positions from 8 RB. The battallion was now disposed as follow:- Right 'D' Coy - on the line of the railway west of GRUBBENVORST with one platoon in GRUBBENVORST, also Carrier Section. Centre 'C' Coy - on the line of the railway about KALDENBROEK (8816), Bn HQ & 'S'Coy - in the area of GRUBBENVORST station (8816), 'B' Coy - in HOUTHUIZEN (8917) with one platoon by night in WEILDER, 'A'Coy - in reserve in farms south of MELDERSLO (8617). 15 Scottish Div Recce Regt were on the right of battallion and 2 KSLI. This gave the battallion a front of four-thousand yards to hold three companies up and our situation was made more difficult by the area being very thickly wooded and there being no floods from the MEUSE to prevent patrols crossing the river, and, in fact, German patrols had been very active and had been carrying out raids at many points on the front. Communications were made very difficult by roads being non-existent and all tracks almost impassable through mud. There was also a very thick mist nearly every day the battallion was in the area cutting visibility down by day to between two hundred and five-hundred yards.	See move Instr attached

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Theo Vervoort.

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