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

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	16	1700	OPs observed enemy mov at the following places AAIEN 8233 KAMP 8331 PAPENBEEK 8530, 856301, LOOI 8827 and WELLERLOOI 8827. These villages seem to be occupied by the enemy who is obviously holding villages with small parties covering approaches to them. The flood water of the R MAAS is much greater on the East bank and has driven the enemy back from the preconceived river line where he had constructed extensive linear defs. Owing to this 'accident' of nature the enemy seems to be hard at work constructing other posns. Our OPs have several times reported seeing men digging and constructing defs near PAPENBEEK 856301 and KAMP. Today has been a red letter day for the arty. During the morning and afternoon 360 rounds were fired on suspected enemy targets at 854347, 854327, 860330, 848315, these are the enemy btys responsible for the shelling of MAASHEES.

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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