WO 171/1384 - 2 Royal Ulster Regiment - June 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: 2nd Bn The Royal Ulster Rifles
Month and Year: June 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. I.C. Harris

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	28	0400	The Battalion attack planned as part of a Brigade attack was based on the assumption that 8 Br lnf Bde should first capture the village of LA BIJUDE and EPRON. They were, however, held up at an early objective – CHATEAU DE LA LONDE. In consequence our own attack, zeroed for the early morning, was indefinitely postponed. At 1200 hrs the plan was changed after a hurried conference between the Brigade Commander and the Commanding Officer. It was decided that B Company and a Squadron of the East Riding Yeomanry would launch an attack on LA BIJUDE. This attack can be described as a feeler with the hope that the enemy, hard pressed at CHATEAU DE LA LONDE, would be unable to resist a thrust on his left flank directed towards LA BIJUDE.

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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