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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: 9 Brit Inf Bde
Month and Year: November 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Brig. G.D. Browne
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
17 0500 3 Recce Regt had embarked on rather an adventurous night with patrols visiting br 809341 and br 814346 to provide infm for two strong fighting patrols standing by for the purpose of a small night attack on these posts. The Recce patrols did indeed discover the boche occupying those posns still but could not provide the fighting patrols with enough explicit infm to warrant a fight.

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.