| 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: Headquarters 29th Armoured Brigade | ||
| Month and Year: September 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Brigadier C.B.C. Harvey, DSO |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1200 | 3 R Tks on the outskirts of ANTWERP. They met some opposition from inf and A tk guns but overcame this and moved steadily into the city. Progress was made extremely difficult owing to the great joy and enthusiasm shown by the enormous crowds who came out into the streets to welcome their liberators. It was found almost impossible to keep them from crowding over the tks and greeting the crews with embraces, drinks and every other form of welcome. The German defenders had been thrown into a complete state of panic and disorganisation by the speed of our adv and no effective resistance was put up in the City itself. The Belgian White Bde turned out in str and proved a great assistance in giving infm, rounding up snipers and small parties of Germans and in providing escorts for the ever-increasing flow of PW. Some German soldiers were actually seen to join the joyful population and add their hand-waves along with the rest. Several parties of enemy who had been charged with the defence of brs and installations in the BOOM 6483 area and area to the West of it realised that something was wrong so abandoned their 20-mm guns and attempted to reach ANTWERP. One such coln stopped on a rd parallel to Main Bde coln. After two rds of Bofors had been fired at them 97 Germans willingly gave themselves up without having fired a shot. This kind of incident was being repeated all over the area. 2 FF Yeo who were clearing the area of the CL, N of BOOM had some good shooting and captured large nos of PW. |
Source: 11th Armoured Division.
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