| 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: HQ 185 Inf Bde | ||
| Month and Year: October 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Brig. E.L. Bols |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | The enemy on our front are a straggly crowd of training and replacement bns formed into 190 Trg Div. They have bad morale but good terrain. One enemy unit is 280 (M) Bn - that is to say a unit composed entirely of dyspeptics. A fair amount of artillery fire is put down on fwd coy areas particularly on 2 Warwick who are holding the area between RIETHORST and the river. Many of us took our first look at GERMANY over the fields covered by American gliders. The GOC aptly described it 'A bloody great place full of awful shits'. |
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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