WO 171/1304 - Hallamshire Battalion - 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 Hallamshire Bn. The York & Lancaster Regiment
Month and Year: December 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. T. Hart Dyke

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	25		The bn spent a quiet Christmas morning in the line. During the afternoon there was some enemy shelling and one man of "D" Coy was killed. During the evening, there was again a considerable amount of patrol, or similar, activity along the whole of the RIJN WETERING. Men could be heard talking and hammering. Planks were being moved about and the crunching of ice as they crossed the dyke could be heard. These activities were several times engaged with 3" mortar, 4.2 mortar, MMG and arty DF tasks. Eventually quiet was restored on the bn front. One patrol was sent out by the bn. This endeavoured to find a crossing place on the canal at the right of the bn sector. The patrol made its way to a pt with subsidiary dyke about 50 yds short of the main dyke. Talking was heard at the junc of the main and subsidiary dykes. The patrol moved on NW, tapping in to the main dyke at each subsidiary dyke. At each place talking was heard on the line of the RIJN WETERING. A crossing was not found.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

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