War Diary: 30th Armoured Brigade

Month and year: August 1944

The 20th Armoured Brigade August 1944 war diary covers the units advance from Villiers-le-Sec, Lasson, Epaney, Lisores ending the month at Bose Yves

National Archive Reference: WO 171/628

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Place	Date	Summary of Events and Information
VILLIERS-LE-SEC.	1st, 2nd	) NTR
	3rd, 4th
	5th	30 Armd Bde Op Order No8, Op Instr No.9,Admn Instrs to Op Instr No.9. Field Return Serial No.16.
	6th	Bde HQ (Main) moved to LASSON Sheet 7F 9674 leaving Bde HQ (Rear) at VILLIERS-LE-SEC, Sheet 7F 8980.
LASSON	7th	Conference of Adjts at LASSON held by BM. Bde Staff attended.
	8th	30 Armd Bde Summary No.1 Op TOTALISATOR.
	9th	Bde HQ (Rear) joins Main HQ at LASSON
		30 Armd Bde Summary No. 2 -Op TOTALISATOR
		30 Armd Bde Op Instrs No.10. 30 Armd Bde Adm Instrs No.10.
	10th	Tac HQ 30 Armd Bde consisting of Bde Comd, Brigadier N.W. Duncan, RACSO - Major G.C. Bogle, Lieut E
		and Lieut J. Myers RCS., moved to Second Cdn Corps area at HUBERT - FOLIE Sheet 7F 0562.
		30 Armd Bde Op Order No.11. 30 Armd Bde Adm Instr to Op Order No.11.
	11th	30 Armd Bde Summary No.3.
	12th	30 Armd Bde Summary No.4. 30 Armd Bde Field Return, Serial No.17.
	13th	30 Armd Bde Op Instr No.12. 30 Armd Bde Adm Instr to Op Instr No.12.

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Place	Date	Summary of Events and Information
	14th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 5.
	15th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 6.
	16th	Tac Bde HQ moved with 2 Cdn Corps from HUBERT-FOLIE to BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE Sheet 7F 0552.
		30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 7. 30 Armd Bde Op Instr No. 13. 30 Armd Bde Adm Instr to Op Instr No. 13.
	17th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 8. 30 Armd Bde Op Instr No. 14. 30 Armd Bde Adm Instr to Op Instr No. 14.
	18th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 9.
	19th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 10. 30 Armd Bde 117/4/4115/A - Subject; Re-Org. Tac Bde HQ moves with 2 Cdn
		Corps from BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE to EPANEY Sheet 7F Ref 155407. Field Return Serial No. 18.
	20th	New Instrs on War Diary recd by this HQ from War Office. In future HQs will keep War Diaries by "G" and
		A/Q Branches. Tk states etc will be included in the daily Op Summary which will therefore in future
		contain all the necssary infm reqd for the 'G' Branch War Diary. 30 Armd Bde Summary No. 11.
EPANEY		Main Bde HQ joined Tac HQ at 7F/155407. Line communications through 2 Cdn Corps unsatisfactory.
	21st	30 Armd Bde Op Instr No. 15. 30 Armd Bde Adm Instr to Op Instr No. 15. 30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 12.
		'B' Sqn 141 RAC comes in sp I (BRIT) CORPS (See Op Instr No. 15). Bde Comd visited 7 Armd Div.
		A' Sqn W Dgns, 'C' Sqn W Dgns in sp II (BRIT) Army Res.

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Place	Date	Summary of Events and Information
	22nd	N.T.R.
	23rd	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 13. Decided to move HQ to keep up with II (Cdn) Corps. See letter on Moves (attil)
8F/497668	24th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 14. 30 Armd Bde Bde HQ closed at 0900 7F/155407 and opened at 8F/497668.
	25th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 15. N.T.R. Bde Comd saw G.O.C. re allocation with view to requirements
		across SEINE.
	26th	Field Return Serial No. 19. 30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 16.
	27th	N.T.R. 30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 17. 30 Armd Bde Op Instr No. 16.
	28th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 18. Tac HQ moved to 8F/497668. See 28/4554/G att. Planning commenced
		I(BRIT) and II(CDN) Corps Ops on LE HAVRE and DIEPPE. The following promised allocations made:-
		DIEPPE (FUSILADE) 1 LOTHIANS, 6 ASLT REGT RE, 'A' SQN 141 RAC. LE HAVRE (ASTONIA) 22 DGNS,
		42 ASLT REGT RE, 'B' SQN 141 RAC.
8F/973926	29th	Main Bde HQ joined Tac Bde HQ at 8F/973926. 30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 19. 30 Armd Bde Op Instr No. 17.
		30 Armd Bde Trg Directive No. 10. 22 Dgns, 1 Lothians, 141 RAC less 'B' & 'C' Sqns conc area 9F/1490.
	30th	30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 20. 30 Armd Bde Op Instr No. 18. 30 Armd Bde 17/4/4551/A Re-org 30 Armd Bde,
	31st	Tac Bde HQ moved to 9F/265080-See 28/4743/G att. 30 Armd Bde Op Summary No. 21.

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Place	Date	Hour	Summary of Events and Information	References to Appendices
	1 - 26		NTR
LISORES	27	0900	Church Service given to HQ and Sigs Sqn by Rev D. C. (CFIV)
	28	1300	Visit by DAAG 79 Armd Div to discuss surpluses now held within Bde, Decided
			to post all surpluses to 264 Special Del Sqn as soon as possible.
BOSE YVES	30	0930	Considered essential by Comd that regts must be given every facility for
			picking best men available to fill WE and that personnel should be exchanged frequently with 1st rfts in order to effect this.
"	30	1530	Visit by DA&QMG and CRASC 79 Armd Div to discuss future ops and sups of
			6 and 42 Aslt Regts RE. Considered that it was advisable to place two regt pls of 109 Coy RASC under comd 502 Coy RASC to sup these regts and
			that these pls should proceed to area 502 Coy RASC fortwith.
"	30		Letter re-org	117/4/4551/A
"	31		B Regt Pl 502 Coy RASC crossed R SEINE with 1 Lothians and A Sqn 141 RAC.
			It consisted of 29 Task vehs which were loaded as follows 15 Pet 8 Amn 3 FTF and N2 and 3 sups. Their load was considered adequate to sup units
			concerned unless abnormal demands were made.
"	31	1900	ADMS visited HQ to stay 2 days in order to visit units in the field

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