WO 171/837 - 2 Household Cavalry - 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 Household Cavalry Regt.
Month and Year: October 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. H. Abel Smith

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	16		20 Oct. 1 Flight 159 AOP was placed in sp of 2 HCR. RE parties also went out daily to assist Sqns - booby trapping and mining the approaches and areas of their strongpoint. The object of the above was to produce a stronger picture of the long front that could be produced by mere Armd Car patrols and the somewhat meagre inf resources which an Armd C Regt can display at night. 1 Sqn was reIieved every 4-8 days so that each Sqn had 48hrs rest in 8 days but nevertheless tps and especially the Sp tps were very hard at it.

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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