Fighting in the direction Breda-Moerdyk.

After withdrawing from Breda, the Germans decided to create a defensive line behind the Mark Canal, the Polish troops pursuing them had to stop on the opposite bank.
The enemy resisted the attacks in order to give the remnants of their troops time to withdraw to the other side of the Meuse¹, these troops would have been threatened with complete destruction if they had been driven to the sea. The Germans therefore held their ground, and the forcing of the canal on a few occasions resulted in many losses on our part.
On 31 October the 8th Battalion succeeded in crossing the canal. Sappers on primitive rafts carried the men and equipment.
The German artillery and their mortars fired with extraordinary accuracy and inflicted many casualties on those attempting to cross the canal. Sometimes the same raft was hit several times by fire.
The tank squadron of one of the armoured regiments suffered huge losses in equipment and when it became clear that they could not hold this bridgehead, the equipment was destroyed by its own crews.

Kazimierz Duda - War Chronicles - 31 October 1944 - Page 94