An Officer's Diary

In the Hertfordshire Archives are notes and a letter from Sergeant R.C. Couzins, the (St Albans) Field Battery, 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade/Field Brigade/Regiment, R.A., about his experiences on the Normandy beach and in the following weeks through Northern France and into Belgium cf. https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/category/herts-history/diaries-and-letters/hertfordshire-voices/personal-papers-of-883440-sergeant-r-c-couzins
In the same batch of papers is the diary of an unknown officer, presumably from the same Field Battery, detailing his experiences of this time. These have been recorded and are presented in the articles below.

Officer's Diary 6th to 13th June 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 14th to 22th June 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 14th to 16th July 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 17th to 19th July 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 11th to 15th August 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 16th to 17th August 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 19th to 22nd August 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 23rd to 27th August 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 28th to 30th August 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 31st August to 2nd September 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 3rd September 1944
Invasion of Normandy
Officer's Diary 4th to 7th September 1944
Invasion of Normandy

Hertfordshire Voices

Hitchin Evacuees
The Letters of Julian Grenfell, 1914
An Officer's Diary
Hellier Gosselin's Diaries
The letters of Captain Martin Leake
The Diaries of Elinor Ritchie, 1914 to 1918
Hertfordshire and The Civil War
Personal Papers of 883440 Sergeant R.C. Couzins
The Letters of Lionel Halsey
THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM BAKER - MP AND GENTLEMAN
The Letters of Arthur Martin-Leake, 1914-1918
The Diaries of Mrs Louisa Arrowsmith, 1822 - 1831
John Edwin Cussans
The Diaries of Mary, Countess Cowper
The Diary of Benjamin Woodcock, 1837
The Diaries of Adela Capel, May 1841 - April 1842
The Diaries of John Carrington, 1798 - 1810
The Weather Diary of Sir John Wittewronge, 1684-89
The Diaries of Henry Lomas of Watford, 1826
The Diaries of Arthur Peck of Hertford, 1860-1861
The Daybook of Frederick Thomas Chennels, 1872
The Diaries of Ann Couzens, 1958-1962

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