| 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: The Hallamshire Bn. The York & Lancaster Regiment | ||
| Month and Year: September 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. T. Hart Dyke |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | In the early hrs of the morning some alarm was caused by a report from 1 Leicesters that a Spandau was in posn outside our Bn HQ. It later became known that a party of 1 Leicesters had been coming down the rd to guide up their cooks vehs and had been challenged in a foreign language. The Challenge had come from a Polish Offr commanding a tp of 17 pdrs outside Bn HQ. The guides took to their heels on hearing this challenge whereupon the Poles, well knowing that they were British Tps, fired a burst from a Bren Gun above their heads as a joke. The situation was soon restored. |
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.
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