WO 171/1326 - 4 King's Shropshire Light Infantry - September 1944

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	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Unit: 4 KSLI
Month and Year: September 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. I.L. Reeves

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	3	1700	Eventually four Div HQ lorries got knocked out by a hidden gun before it could be dealt with. After this, we moved up in front of them as a vanguard Bn, and at last the advance really got cracking. We passed through the village of CYSOING, where 1st Bn was in 1939/40 and we got a tremendous reception. Many relics of the 1st Bn were in evidence and several old acquaintances renewed. We crossed the Belgian frontier and continued the advance along exactly the same route as the 1st Bn moved up to the River DYLE in 1940. The column were going at full speed most of the time. The reception in Belgium was really amazing – even better than we had in France. People were dancing in the streets and “wine flowed like water”. In one village we got given ice cream – our first in nearly five years. As it got dark, the scenes were lighted up by the burning houses of collaborators and old German billets.

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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