70th Infantry Brigade War Diary April 1944. - Revision history

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 His Majesty The King visited 70th Infantry Brigade and the attached troops, arriving at THETFORD Station at 14:30 hours and leaving the area at 16:00 hours.  Details are set out on Appendices L and M attached to the War Diary.
-The IMperial War Museum holds, within its Film Collection, a record of this visit by His Majesty to 49th Division, which includes footage of men of all three Infantry Battalions.  There is a link to the IWM Website on which the 4-minute silent film can be viewed - please click [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060019376 here].
+'''The Imperial War Museum holds, within its Film Collection, a record of this visit by His Majesty to 49th Division, which includes footage of men of all three Infantry Battalions in the 70th Infantry Brigade.  There is a link to the IWM Website on which the 4-minute silent film can be viewed - please click [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060019376 here].'''
 '''28th April 1944'''

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	His Majesty The King visited 70th Infantry Brigade and the attached troops, arriving at THETFORD Station at 14:30 hours and leaving the area at 16:00 hours. Details are set out on Appendices L and M attached to the War Diary.		His Majesty The King visited 70th Infantry Brigade and the attached troops, arriving at THETFORD Station at 14:30 hours and leaving the area at 16:00 hours. Details are set out on Appendices L and M attached to the War Diary.
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		+	The IMperial War Museum holds, within its Film Collection, a record of this visit by His Majesty to 49th Division, which includes footage of men of all three Infantry Battalions. There is a link to the IWM Website on which the 4-minute silent film can be viewed - please click [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060019376 here].

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 '''11th – 17th April 1944'''
-Divisional Exercise BUMP took place.  70th Infantry Brigade Group, supported by four Field Regiments and one Medium Regiment of Artillery, completed a seven-day exercise on the DUNWICH BATTLE AREA.  Live enemy and live ammunition were used – the live enemy being withdrawn prior to an attack going in, to make the conditions under which the exercise was carried out as realistic as practicable.  The Army and Corps Commanders visited the Brigade while the exercise was in progress and it was considered highly successful.  Details are found on Appendices F, G, H and J attached to the War Diary.
+Divisional Exercise BUMP took place.  70th Infantry Brigade Group, supported by four Field Regiments and one Medium Regiment of Artillery, completed a seven-day exercise on the [[Dunwich]] BATTLE AREA.  Live enemy and live ammunition were used – the live enemy being withdrawn prior to an attack going in, to make the conditions under which the exercise was carried out as realistic as practicable.  The Army and Corps Commanders visited the Brigade while the exercise was in progress and it was considered highly successful.  Details are found on Appendices F, G, H and J attached to the War Diary.
 '''15th April 1944'''