The story
The advanced posts of the 3rd Battalion have the contact. A Company of the 1st Battalion occupies NIEUWLAND. Each battalion has two troops of tanks in support (SHERMAN).
A patrol of the 3rd battalion announces that the position is occupied by an enemy section. In Belgium, the RASC Company and the Brigade Workshop receive the order to leave SAINT-NICOLAS to join the Brigade.
A patrol of the 1st Battalion announces that ELDIKSENHOEK is unoccupied but that there are many mines. Other patrols recognize the routes towards OCHTEN.
As for the 2nd Battalion, it passes under the command of the 116 Royal Infantry Marines Brigade and leaves the island of WALCHEREN to CAPELLE, it relieves there the 48th Commando and occupies southern bank of BERGSE MAAS on a front of more than 6 kilometres, in the west of ' S HERTOGENBOSCH.
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