WO 171/1257 - 3 Irish Guards - 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: 3rd Bn Irish Guards
Month and Year: October 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. J.O.E. Vandeleur

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
AAM	1		At about 0500 hrs, a strong counter attack began to develop from the NE and Eastern flanks. In one place the enemy succeeded in infiltrating into the area held by No. 3 Coy and into a copse North of No. 4 Coy. After hard fighting and a liberal use of arty sp, the enemy eventually started to crack about 1400 hrs and by evening the posn was once more stabilized. 91 PW were taken by the Bn during the counter attack and came for the most part from 9 Pz Div. During the early hours of darkness, No. 2 Coy relieved No. 1 Coy in the most northerly posn, with their leading elements across the embanked rd running Westwards to ELST at 722717 (Sheet 6 NW, Scale 1/25000). Late in the day a coy of 1 WG was sent up to assist us and was placed by the CO North of Bn HQ area at 717723. Contact patrols from 4 Som L.I. who were in the area of ELST failed to make contact owing to enemy infiltration between themselves and us. A recce patrol which investigated the area of RIJKERSWAARTD 7272, reported no enemy seen.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Fred Bolle.

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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