| 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: No. 127 Town Major | ||
| Month and Year: October 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Captain E.W. Bartley RA |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRUSSELS BELGIUM | 9 | 0900 | Reported to 21 Army Grp Welfare Office 145 Rue Royale BRUSSELS. Received instructions to make survey of part no. 5 Police District BRUSSELS for Welfare accommodation. | |
| 14 | 1000 | Reported to 21 Army Grp Welfare, Major Dreyfus result of 4½ days survey. | ||
| 20 | 1000 | Received warning order to move, from 91 Town Major. | ||
| EINDHOVEN HOLLAND | 22 | 1330 | Moved to EINDHOVEN and reported to Town Major on arrival. | |
| 23 | 1030 | Received Ford 15 cwt truck & Dr. L Bateman | ||
| 23 | 1415 | Attended conferance held in Town Major Office EINDHOVEN by Col Montague to Garrison Commander. He alloted to Town Major 127 area bounded approximaterly on the north by the 24 Norting Line, west by EINDHOVEN & 47 Easting Line, south by BELGIUM frontier & east by the front line till this moves to the German frontier when the latter would be the eastern boundary WEERT to be the centre. See sheet nr 4 1/100,00 MAESEYCK map. | ||
| WEERT HOLLAND | 24 | 0930 | To WEERT saw burgomaster fixed up office & accommodation for Self & o/rs | |
| EINDHOVEN HOLLAND | 25 | 0930 | To 10 Garrison took trace of extent of area. Saw S.C.A. S.C.Q. & S.C.T. | |
| WEERT HOLLAND | 25 | 1400 | Set up office. To A.P.O. arranged mail. | |
| 26 | Made survey of area, with interpreter. | |||
| 27 | 1530 | Col Montague 10 Garrison Commander called at office | ||
| GELDROP HOLLAND | 28 | 1100 | To GELDROP made survey of factory & premises in town with Brig Sewell DA & QMG Major Ferguson DA QMG. 8 Corps & Major O'Brient U.S.A. | |
| 29 | 1100 | To GELDROP made further survey of space available with Major Ferguson DAQMG. | ||
| 30 | 1700 | Served requisition notices of 9 premises on burgomaster, GELDROP. | ||
| 30 | 2000 | DAQMG 10 Garrison rang told me to move office to LEENDE MR4808 on EINDHOVEN-WEERT road. | ||
| LEENDE HOLLAND | 31 | Recconnoitered alternative office quarters & messing arrangements. | ||
| 31 | Arranged to move office when warned to do so by DAQMG 10 Garrison. |
Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Babs Vietje.
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.
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