WO 171/617 - 9 Infantry Brigade - September 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: 9 Brit Inf Bde
Month and Year: September 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Brig. G.D. Browne

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	21	1940	During the evening the Bde Comd was called away to 8 Corps HQ returning at 1940 hrs. Several reports keep filtering through regarding hosts of enemy being seen here, there and everywhere. These reports, mainly figments of civilian imagination, are harassing at times and a great deal of care is required to sift the wheat from the chaff. It was decided at the behest of the Bde Comd to contact the leader of the local resistance movement with a view to them providing guides for our patrols down the road 4793 and toward the canal 4892 - an area the Boche is known to occupy. The officer of the Belgian underground movement was duly discovered by the Bde Int Off, presented to the Bde Comd, and eager to assist, was finally placed "under comd" 2 Lincolns.

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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