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WAR DIARY
or
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
Army Form C.2118
Unit: 4th Tk Bn Grenadier Guards
Month and Year: January 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. H.R.H. Davies
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
3 1700 Personnel from the Bn attended a demonstration on petrol supply systems by the petrol supply demonstration unit at Eckington. A Bn wireless course commenced to-day. There was also a motor mechanics trade test. No. 3 Sqn carried out firing on Totley Ranges. 2nd Lieut. M.R.V. Eliot and 2nd Lieut. R.J. Macallum are posted to the Bn to date 16 Dec 43. Captain R.G.C. Rasch is appointed 2nd in Comd H.Q. Sqn. to date 1 Jan 44.

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

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