WAR DIARY of 61 Recce Regt RAC November 1944
– Lt Col P.H.A. Brownrigg
Date 1st-2nd Place ZETTEN
‘ “A” Squadron continued to hold their positions at ZETTEN. The area is quiet apart from spasmodic mortaring and shelling and the only extra commitment is the daily Armoured Car patrol to OPHEUSDEN. This battered village is unoccupied, abandoned by the enemy and only entered daily by our cars, an American and usually a German patrol. The entire area is heavily mined (Schu-mines* mainly), and the Americans suffer almost daily casualties from them.
Place WINSSEN
The remainder of the regiment are resting at WINSSEN, overhauling equipment and cleaning up etc.
*German anti-personnel mine with a wooden body making it difficult to detect with metal detectors.
Dick was in Antwerp, Belgium
from the 2nd to the 4th November 1944
when he returned to Winssen.
WAR DIARY of 61 Recce Regt RAC November 1944
– Lt Col P.H.A. Brownrigg
Date 1st-2nd Place ZETTEN
‘ “C” Squadron relieved “A” today. The relief was unfortunately marred by a stray mortar bomb which burst alongside a “C” Squadron carrier killing 1 Other Rank and wounding 4.
61st Recce Roll of Honour includes the 'Other Rank' who died on 3rd November 1944:
Trooper Frederick Stanley Ronald Smith (age 28) from Collier’s Wood, Surrey
who is laid to rest in the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.
(See 61st Recce Roll of Honour, courtesy of Recce Mitch.)
We will remember them.
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