17 July 1941 Part 2

17 July 1941 Reinforcements arriving between 8 and 15 July 1941

[Scan 1011.jpg] Note. State of reinforcement of the Channel Islands since 8 July 1941. (Last report to Armed Forces High Command on 9 July, giving position on 8 July 1941.) [Date in file contents: 17 July 1941.]

11 July: (a) 2nd Company/Engineer Battalion 319, less one platoon, arrived on Guernsey; one platoon on Jersey. (b) Construction Battalion 158, less 3rd Company, arrived on Jersey. (c) Forty-two light mortars 36 and forty-two heavy mortars 34 arrived at Granville. (d) Compressors and other equipment of fortress-engineer staffs arrived. (e) Fighting strengths on 11 July: Guernsey 3,725 men; Jersey 3,256 men, including naval artillery, anti-aircraft and fortress-construction units.

15 July: (a) Twenty-four light and twenty-four heavy mortars arrived with 319th Infantry Division on the islands. (b) Army Coastal Battery 461 (15 cm K18) arrived on Alderney with personnel and equipment, without ammunition. (c) Arrived at Saint-Malo: Army Coastal Batteries 462 and 463 (15 cm K18), without ammunition; Army Coastal Batteries 464,465, 466,467, 468,469 (21 cm heavy mortar 18), with equipment and ammunition, without personnel. (d) Batteries 470,471, 472 (22 cm), with personnel and ammunition but without equipment, arrived in the Army area. Loading will not finish before 25 July. (e) On Jersey: Fortress Engineer Staff 14; headquarters Sector Group II/14; 5th Company/Construction Battalion 19.

[Scan 1012.jpg] Fortress Construction Battalion 152 on Guernsey. (f) Five tonnes of explosives and ignition equipment distributed between both islands. (g) Construction of battery positions and field fortifications is in progress.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 1011.jpg, 1012.jpg.