WO 171/1387 - 2 Royal Warwickshire Regiment - January 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 Warwickshire Regt
Month and Year: January 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt-Col H.O.S. Herdon

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
LOCHMABEN	2		Battalion, C of E Church Parade, Church LOCHMABEN, Preacher. Rev. T. Austin, Padre.
	3		Film in Garrison Theatre 1930 hrs. “The Plainsman”.
	4		D Company carried out Exercise “Vanguard I” using live ammunition on “Carthiat Hill”, Range.
	6		'B' Company on Ex “Vanguard I”.
	7		New Typhus injection given to Bn personnel.
	8		185 Inf. Bde, Exercise “Key” began. Cipher exercise of one weeks duration. Bn move order for move to NAIRN issued to companies.
	9		Lt. Col. H.O.S. Herdon, returned from leave.
ST MARY'S LOCH	12		“A” Company practised a company assault landing at ST MARY'S LOCH.
LOCHMABEN	13	0730	Battalion advance party leave camp.
LOCHMABEN	13		For NAIRN, by road. Party staged night 13/14 Jan 44 at DUNDEE. New issue of maps for use at NAIRN distributed to the 185 Inf. Bde. Gp.
ST MARY'S LOCH	14	0800	D' Company practiced a company assault landing at ST MARY'S LOCH.
LOCHMABEN	15	1915	Battalion road party, comprising 43 vehicles left camp for NAIRN. Party staged night 15/16 Jan 44 at PERTH.
LOCHMABEN	16	1919	First train party left LOCHMABEN for NAIRN.	Appx A, B, C, D.
	17	1500	Second traing party left LOCHMABEN for NAIRN.
NAIRN	19	2000	R.N.A.S. officer visited commanding officer to arrange drogue target practice.
	20	1930	Bn rear road rail parties arrive at NAIRN.
	21	0930	Bn all ranks dance, town hall, NAIRN.
NAIRN	23	1000	Bn church parade for service at the old parish church, NAIRN. Preacher Rev. J. Austin, C.F.
	24		Six members of the Bn intelligense sec. flew on a practice air recce flight of stn. area.
	25	1400	Rifle Coys embarked on landing ship infantry for a 24 hrs cruise. Offrs, Woi & Sgts in station attended lecture at HQ 3 Br. Inf. Div.
	25		Subtext “Prisoner of War behaviour”.
	27	0700	Bn Assault Gp. conference on Ex “Crown”.
	28	0930	Air Naval Bombardemnt, Ex “Fizzle” Bn HQ 2 Assault Coy. HQ's took part.
	30	1100	Lt. Col. H.O.S. Herdon briefed Bn Gp. Commanders for Ex “Dryshod”.
	31		Ex “Dryshod” Bn “dry” assault Ex in NAIRN Area.

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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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