| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1200 | Instrs were received from Div to warn all units that the present enemy air activity may be a prelude to ground ops directed against us and a state of gen alertness was to be kept. On the orders of the Bde Comd a list of targets was prepared by the Bde IO and distributed to bns, 33 Fd Regt, and D Coy 2 Mx (the 4.2 mortar coy). In his instr the Bde Comd ordered a selection of targets to be engaged each day by arty, hy mortars or bn mortars, and targets engaged will be notified to this HQ daily. Comd 33 Fd Regt will coord the fire of his own regt and the hy mortars. This policy is a direct result of the bns observation work over the past fortnight and the list of targets are as follows: |
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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