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Undated Handwritten notes on British Channel Islands and Dutch island garrisons

[Scan 1240.jpg] Handwritten note. British Channel Islands. Commander of the British Channel Islands: Colonel Count Schmettow, with a provisional staff. At present: one machine-gun battalion, reinforced, and one antitank battalion. In future: two reinforced infantry battalions, two captured field-gun batteries and two captured heavy field-howitzer batteries. Delivery of coastal batteries is intended.

A report on further requirements from the Navy and Luftwaffe follows. Proposed change of island command area from Sixth Army to Ninth Army on 15 March [wording partly uncertain]. Dutch islands: Texel, one company; on the remaining islands, none. File under “Coastal protection.” Marginal names and abbreviated notes are not securely legible. [Undated; no year assigned solely from the reference to 15 March.]

Original source image 1240.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Handwritten notes on British Channel Islands and Dutch island garrisons.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 1240.jpg.