WO 171/1304 - Hallamshire Battalion - November 1944

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
	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Unit: The Hallamshire Bn. The York & Lancaster Regiment
Month and Year: November 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. T. Hart Dyke

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	4		Shortly before the night's operations began, it was reported that the enemy were definitely in NIEUWEMOLEN, consequently a separate attack had to be mounted to clear the village. An excellent patrol led by Cpl Shaw found the enemy's posns an brought back a PW - with the aid of a blunt instrument - who declared that there were about thirty enemy in the region of the two x rds and the windmill in the village. At 2130 the village was attacked and Capt Gill took in a composite pl - his own and Lt Hardy's - and began clearing the right hand side of the village. Complete surprise was achieved. One German was killed and a number of PW were taken. The Northern side of the village was soon cleared and the pl established on the x rds to the West. Lt Conolley's pl then began on the left and cleared up the remainder of the enemy, taking 5 PW and killing one offr who was bellicose and 1 OR who tried to escape. The whole village was cleared by 0030 and patrols sent fwd, these, however, could not make much progress, as the night had now become very bright. The command post had by now been established just East of FIJNAART, Maj Newton being accidentally injured during the move.

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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