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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: HQ 159 Infantry Brigade
Month and Year: December 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Brigadier J.B. Churcher
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
18 1200 At approx 1200 hrs 3 Mon reported they had taken 4 Pow from 6 Coy, 11 Bn Hubner who were on patrol with orders to take a Pow. Details of their orders were obtained. A party was arranged to catch the boating party who were going to collect them. On hearing the given signal of 3 shots fired, two on a Luger. This operation was not successful owing to the fact that the patrol split up into two parties and then owing to the darkness and general tension, fired on each other which scared the enemy boat party which had answered the pre-arranged signal and therefore turned back.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Pim van Gelder.

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