WO 171/840 - 1 Royal Dragoons - December 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: The Royal Dragoons
Month and Year: December 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. H.W. Lloyd

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	15		Apart from an 88 m.m S.P. gun which fired about 20 rounds into BEUGEN and the N outskirts of BOXMEER during the day, nothing of interest was reported from our front during the day. The C.O. visited 3 Div H.Q. in the morning and was informed that the Canadians were going to spread South and take over the Divisional area down to a line from incl BOXMEER, ST. ANTHONIS, GEMERT, HELMOND. The Royals would continue to hold SAMBEEK and would extend Southward to hold VORTUM and GROENINGEN, the two Dutch Coys remaining under comnand. ST. ANTHONIS and GEMERT would be evacuated by us. A recce was made during the day of LACTARIA and the house at 667339 which was formerly used for RHQ, Inns of Court Regt, and it was decided that RHQ and both resting Sqns could be accommodated in these areas. 2/Lt. W. Williams-Wynn who recently joined the Regt has been posted to 'A' Sqn. Dull, some rain.

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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