WO 171/837 - 2 Household Cavalry - October 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 Household Cavalry Regt.
Month and Year: October 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt.Col. H. Abel Smith

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	10		2 H.C.R. received warning order to move to 8 Corps area to take over the job of holding the left flank of 8 Corps. 8 Corps was on the EAST of the main centre line to NIJMEGEN SOUTH of the MAAS and their task was to protect the EAST flank of Second Army and to push SOUTH from area OPLOO 7137 to clear up the enemy in the PEEL (marsh) country to the WEST of the MAAS as far SOUTH as ROERMOND 7990. This meant that the Corps had a front of 42 miles and in particular a long exposed NORTH EAST flank on the R. MAAS. 2 H.C.R. was ordered to take over under comd 11 Armd Div, incl CUY 7349 to rly br at GENNEP 7746. This sector was to be taken over from 3 Recce Regt.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

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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