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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
5   A certain number of PW - mostly deserters - comes in. Considerable enemy Nebelwerfer activity. Our OPs on the other side of the MAAS enable us to see behind the enemy's lines and shoot up his L of C. The enemy posns in the REICHSWALD on the other head very largely overlooked us. 1 Norfolk in the narrow strip of woodland NW of the REICHSWALD were in contact with the Germans in the wood itself. 2 KSLI were in reserve.

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.