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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
Unit: 2nd Bn E. Yorkshire Regt
Month and Year: August 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. N.J. Dickson
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
7 0530 Stand-to, and bn under immediate notice to move. Readiness continued throughout the day, but bn did not in fact go forward. Bn now on extreme right of Br 2 Army. Contact made during the day with an American Tk Destroyer Unit in the area. Expected that bn would take over from Lincolns (9 Br Inf Bde), area LA GROUDIERE, as soon as latter went fwd.

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.