| 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: 8th Bn. The Rifle Brigade | ||
| Month and Year: July 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. J.A. Hunter. |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST.MARTIN | 31 | 0915 | As soon as possible the next morning 'H' Coy put in an attack on ST.MARTIN, the plan was that 'G' Coy should work round the left of the road where the country was extremely close, while the tanks worked round to the right. The Coys ran into extremly heavy opposition on the line of the rly just North of the village and were almost pinned to the ground. In the end by persistent fire and movement and with the help of 1 Herefords who came along the road to ST.MARTIN from the West, where the opposition was negligibe, they finally took the place at 1430 hrs. During the battle Capt.Straler, Lieut.Stileman and Lieut.Yetman were wounded, Capt.May took over 'H' Coy. This was perhapts the hardest fighting in which the Bn. had yet been engaged, but it was repaid by the knowledge that with the capture of ST.MARTIN the last line of enemy defences had been penetrated, third time lucky, we had made a breakthrough. |
Source: 11th Armoured Division.
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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