April 5th, Patrol engagement near Zeurange

There is a brief report of the Action involving Cpt Fisher in a new book published this year "I Fought at Dunkirk" by Mike Rossiter - reported on P54 and P55 by Sid Lewis who was one of the 2nd Warwicks soldiers on patrol with Cpt Fisher that night.

The patrol was on a reconnaissance, split up after crossing a stream with Cpt Fisher's party moving along the bank.

They heard a dog bark, and as the Germans sometimes used Alsatians for tracking , Fisher moved them up hill and placed his men either side of the path.

As the Germans patrol arrived at a line of trees, Fisher fired killing the leader, a German Lt. The Germans realising they were in trap, retreated immediately spraying machine gun bullets as they disappeared.

The British suffered no causalities and the only German dead was the Lt - a very large man and too big to carry, so his papers, ID tags and pack were taken.

A believe that this would be "A" company as the Major is a Chichester-Constable.

There seemed to a much bigger fire-fight on the 10th April with casualties on both sides at Grindorf.

 

Thank you for the information!

About combat on April, 10th I have only one entry in the XXX.Korps diary concerning the 79th.ID (which for me is "out-of-area").

It menstions that during the night between the 10th and 11th there was a contact between two patrols. The enemy patrol was numerically superior but suffered heavy casualties (so they claim).

The 79.ID patrol had 1 killed and 6 injured.

 

A Coy again and they were ambushed at Grindoff as they were setting off on patrol.

They suffered four wounded but a Pvt Whiteside saved Chichester Clark by shooting a German who was in the act of throwing a grenade.

Again they searched him and found lots of letters\photo to his wife plus some pornography