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WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY |
Army Form C.2118 |
| Unit: 2nd Fife & Forfar Yeo., R.A.C. | ||
| Month and Year: February 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. A.B.J. Scott, M.C. |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 9 | Standford Battle Area: A & C Sqns each spent 2 days in combined ex with KSLI & Herefords respectively. Main function of tks was to provide Browning fire in sp of inf. | |||
| 7 | C in C 21 Army Gp visited the Bde & spoke to all ranks at an informal parade. | A | ||
| 13 | Ex Eagle: Conc on 13 Feb in bde area | Ref OS [ ] 23 & 28 | ||
| 15 | 0700 | Advance North: first contact TIBTHORPE HOGGATE we passed 2 [ ] Yeo and pushed on as far as [ ] line of 82 grid line where we were held up by mines, [ ] & arty fire. 159 Bde took over from | B & C | |
| 15 | 2200 | us after dark & we drew [ ] to TIBTHORPE HO 4375. | ||
| 16 | C Sqn were of to GARTONFIELD HO 4280 at night to assist inf there if required. There was a false alarm during the night of 50 enemy this [ ] up from SW to [ ] apparently a [ ] column. | |||
| 17 | We moved up to LIFE [ ] area to offer a show of strength [ ] the gap between 159 Inf Bde & Gds Armd Div on the left 2 PW were taken by Recce Tp. | |||
| 18 | 2230 | Night march to rear conc area at MOOR FM near KINKBURN 15(S) Div came up to conc to attack an [ ] of enemy line on 22/23 Feb. | ||
| 22 | 0500 | Night march thro DRIFFIELD & gaps in minefield 470849 above COTTAM. Contact made with enemy at [ ] when we were held up by [ ] minefield [ ] five. | D E | |
| 23 | 15(S)Div breached minefield night 22/23 Feb & we formed [ ] at first light. Contact was quickly made of a [ ] action [ ] W all day against enemy tks supported by at least one [ ] regt. Considerable losses were inflicted & suffered [ ] we reached the high ground [ ] as [ ] objective before the posn aws taken over by 23H who had followed us up. We then moved WEST to WARREN Ho area & made contact with enemy enemy armour in area PEAKCLUMPS 4796. No decisive action was fought as enemy seemed determed is withdraw his armour. | F | ||
| 23/24 | Leager at CAT BABBLETON 4793 | |||
| 24 | Dispersal at first light; patrols were [ ] Reports from 2 [ ] Yeo & fwd units showed enemy well behind river DERWENT and whenever [ ] tps were ever the bn, Eagle cease fire came [ ]. After some [ ], we returned to BRIDLINGTON | |||
| 24/25 | that night arriving between 0100 0200 hrs. General opinion seemed to be that, sondidering it was February [ ], ik had been a good exercise. The [ ] system worked well & everyone took to the new Slides code quite easily. On return we setled down to maintenacen, trng in waterproofing and a period of recreational trng. Leave parties increased. During the exercise the reegt lost one of its original members when Major [ ] left to join Staff Yeo from whom Major Nichols came to take over as OC C Sqn. A farewell party was given for Major [ ] the officers mess on Friday 25 Feb. |
Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com.
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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