WO 171/617 - 9 Infantry Brigade - October 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: October 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Brig. G.D. Browne

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	26	2000	Remainder of the day was rather quiet, some mortaring and shelling prevented it from being altogether quiet. The Brig had evolved a new method for employing the mortars of bns and the 4.2 mortars under comd. In order to confuse the enemy counter mortar or counter bty org he has ordered that shoots will be conducted at set times each day. These timings, allotted by Bde, will be changed daily and units will prepare their targets and engage them at their stated times. Thus will be seen all mortars in the bde gp firing on their pre-selected targets at a definite time in the hope of saturating both enemy posns and mort spotting orgs. The system has been well received by the bns.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

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