WO 171/7822 - 110 Provost Company - April 1945

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: 110 Provost CMP
Month and Year: April 1945	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Capt. J.D. Brown

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
LAER 7384	1		The company is disposed along “Square Route” with No. 2 Sec. attached Main H.Q. 8 Corps. No. 1 Section under command 6 Gds Armd Bde and No. 5 at F.M.C. 60. The problems at present being tackled by the company are the maintaining of an uninterrupted flow of traffic up “Square Route” and its return; the maintenance of the road surface itself in several places, notably GESCHEN and the bridge at RAMSDORF; the disposal of enemy P’s o.W. who are giving themselves up regularly in small parties; the disposal of Allied ex P.O.W. who have escaped or been released from prison camps; and the passing back of displaced persons – Russians, Poles, French, Italian, Dutch, &c. No reference is made in Appx A to P.O.W.’s because they are picked up from the roadside, or as they come to company H.Q. and put immediately on any available traffic returning towards the F.M.C. or P.O.W. cage. No Military Government is as yet established in LAER and the company so far has had to undertake many of their responsibilities.	See Appx ‘A’

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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