| 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: 127 Town Major | ||
| Month and Year: June 1944 | (Erase heading not required). | Commanding Officer: Captain E.W. Bartley RA |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catterick, Yorks | 1 | Receipt of secret letter NC 7025/B/G/SD marked as above. | ||
| Catterick Camp, Yorks | 6 | 1100 | Opened three secret letters to be opened when BBC announced operations had commenced in Western Europe and read out contents. | |
| 8-10 | Captain E.W. Bartley attended Mine and Booby Trap Couse at the Northern Command Weapon Training School. | |||
| 9 | 1800 | Warning Order received to be at 48 hrs notice w.ef 0001 hrs 11th June 44. from Northern Command. | ||
| 14 | 0900 | Received Movement Order from Northern Command NRD/2175/Q2 to report to Hobbs Barracks LINGFIELD. | ||
| Lingfield, Surrey | 15 | 1930 | Completed road journey to Hobbs Barracks LINGFIELD, with personnel and stores | |
| 17 | 1100 | Received Movement Order from North Kent and Surrey District to move unit to R.T.O Victoria Station, LONDON. | ||
| 18 | 0900 | Moved Unit by Rail to Victoria Station. Reported to E.T.O., and then moved to Camp S/6 in Marshalling Area. | ||
| Camp S/6 | 20 | 0830 | Left for port of Embarkation. | |
| 20 | 1000 | Embarked. | ||
| France | 27 | 1050 | Landed on beach and thence by 3 Tonner with personnel and Unit Equipment to 36 R.H.U., 102 Reinforcement Group. | |
| 30 | 1100 | Collected part of G.1098 Stores from 17 A.O.D. |
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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