WO 171/846 - 15-19 The King Royal Hussars - August 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: 15th/19th Hussars
Month and Year: August 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt Col A.D. Taylor, MC.

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	17		Continued taking over tanks and some new B vehs. Tanks received were 11 Challenger 17 Pdr tks, 6 Cromwell 95mm and 44 Cromwell 75mm tks. Later in the evening the Regt moved forward, its wheeled vehs by road and its tks on transporter lorries to the area where the 11 Armd Div were fighting to take over from 2nd Northants Yeo. It was planned that the tks should arrive just behind the Div front line at 0200hrs on the 18th, that the Regt should immediately take over position from 2nd Northants Yeo who had been fighting in contact with the enemy until nightfall and that the Northants Yeo should go away with their tks on the same transporters at 0530hrs that morning. The Regt was told that it would be responsible for these positions from the moment it took over from the 2nd Northants Yeo and would continue the adv at the head of the Bde Gp. at first light.

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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