WO 171/1387 - 2 Royal Warwickshire Regiment - 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: 2nd Bn The Royal Warwickshire Regt
Month and Year: October 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer:

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	9		During the past few days plans for the offensive towards the REICHSWALD Forest had been changed constantly and it was now decided to call the operation of altogether. This was mainly due to the strong German threat to the right flank of the British corridor based on VENLO and VENRAY, and 8 Corps of which 3 BR Inf. Div. was part, was to be diverted to clear this threat. The Div. was to concentrate South of the Meuse and the battalion was releived during the afternoon and the evening by a battalion of 43 Div. and moved to a concentration area north of MILL - Square 6444- during the night.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Theo Vervoort.

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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