| 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: The Royal Dragoons | ||
| Month and Year: November 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. H.W. Lloyd |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | A bright sunshiny morning and very cold, but at midday it clouded over and at 1300 hrs it started to rain again. It rained hard and ceaselessly for the rest of the day, visibility being reduced to a few hundred yards. On our own front N.T.R. The MEUSE pocket is now cleared of the enemy, all but a few pockets round VENLO. The mopping up of these pockets has been prevented mainly by the weather. The ground has been so boggy that it has been almost impossible to use any armour in the operations of clearing the MEUSE pocket and our air support has also, of necessity, been reduced, in this theatre, to practically nil. There will shortly be some regrouping on this front. O.C. 185 Bde (3 (Br) Div), Brigadier Bols, visited RHQ this morning. |
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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