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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 The Royal Ulster Rifles
Month and Year: December 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. I.C. Harris
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
855254 1   Zero hour for this, the second attack on the WANSSUM pocket, was fixed at 0100 hrs. At 2100 and 2300 hrs the previous evening the gunners had shelled known Bosche localities but the actual attack was to be silent except for some harrassing fire on more remote targets by 4.2 Mortars and MGs.

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.