Thanks to The Airborne Soldier for this diary.

Abbreviations

Bde Comd Div

Brigade Command Division / Division

Month and year: September 1944

Commanding Officer : Captain G.D. Wilmot

18th to 19th September 1944

Place: England 

After the Div Airborne Element had left on their operation, the 2nd Seaborne Element of Units of this Bde left BRIZE NORTON on the 18th and returned to WOODHALL SPA where their vehicles were loaded up with stores and equipment.

20th September 1944

Place: England

The 2nd Seaborne Element under comd Capt G.D. Wilmot, 2nd S.Staffords left WOODHALL SPA on the morning of 20th and arrived at transit camp near to TILBURY DOCKS that evening.

21st September 1944

Place: England

The 2nd Seaborne Element parties of the Bde embarked with their vehicles, along with other Div 2nd Seaborne parties, on a transport cargo boat, M.V. “SAMHERN”

22nd September 1944

Place: M.V. “SAMHERN”

The 2nd Seaborne Parties left TILBURY in M.V. “SAMHERN” after midday 22nd Sept.

23rd September 1944

Place: M.V. “SAMHERN”

Anchored off SOUTHEND to await a convoy, which left SOUTHEND during the hours of darkness and arrived off the NORMANDY beaches on the evening of the 23 Sept.

23rd to 30th September 1944

2nd Seaborne parties of the Div remained abroad M.V. “SAMHERN” all during this period, no personnel or vehicles being disembarked. With the return of the Airborne Element of the Div to the U.K., the M.V. “SAMHERN” left the anchorage off the NORMANDY beaches on 29th Sep and took the 2nd Seaborne Parties back to TILBURY, which was reached on the evening of 30th Sept.