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WAR DIARY
or
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
Army Form C.2118
Unit: No. 127 Town Major
Month and Year: October 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Captain E.W. Bartley RA
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
BRUSSELS BELGIUM 9 0900 Reported to 21 Army Grp Welfare Office 145 Rue Royale BRUSSELS. Received instructions to make survey of part no. 5 Police District BRUSSELS for Welfare accommodation.
14 1000 Reported to 21 Army Grp Welfare, Major Dreyfus result of 4½ days survey.
20 1000 Received warning order to move, from 91 Town Major.
EINDHOVEN HOLLAND 22 1330 Moved to EINDHOVEN and reported to Town Major on arrival.
23 1030 Received Ford 15 cwt truck & Dr. L Bateman
23 1415 Attended conferance held in Town Major Office EINDHOVEN by Col Montague to Garrison Commander. He alloted to Town Major 127 area bounded approximaterly on the north by the 24 Norting Line, west by EINDHOVEN & 47 Easting Line, south by BELGIUM frontier & east by the front line till this moves to the German frontier when the latter would be the eastern boundary WEERT to be the centre. See sheet nr 4 1/100,00 MAESEYCK map.
WEERT HOLLAND 24 0930 To WEERT saw burgomaster fixed up office & accommodation for Self & o/rs
EINDHOVEN HOLLAND 25 0930 To 10 Garrison took trace of extent of area. Saw S.C.A. S.C.Q. & S.C.T.
WEERT HOLLAND 25 1400 Set up office. To A.P.O. arranged mail.
26   Made survey of area, with interpreter.
27 1530 Col Montague 10 Garrison Commander called at office
GELDROP HOLLAND 28 1100 To GELDROP made survey of factory & premises in town with Brig Sewell DA & QMG Major Ferguson DA QMG. 8 Corps & Major O'Brient U.S.A.
29 1100 To GELDROP made further survey of space available with Major Ferguson DAQMG.
30 1700 Served requisition notices of 9 premises on burgomaster, GELDROP.
30 2000 DAQMG 10 Garrison rang told me to move office to LEENDE MR4808 on EINDHOVEN-WEERT road.
LEENDE HOLLAND 31   Recconnoitered alternative office quarters & messing arrangements.
31   Arranged to move office when warned to do so by DAQMG 10 Garrison.

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Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Babs Vietje.

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.