The definitive research resource for the 1st KOSB from 1944-1949
Sunday
17 September 1944
Start Location:
Soignies, BELGIUM
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End Location:
MEUSE ESCAUT CANAL
D-Day+
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17 September 1944
The Bn left the staging area at 0635 hrs and arrived at about 1400 hrs in an area South of the MEUSE ESCAUT CANAL near LILLE ST HUBERT.
The Bn had a quick run by-passing BRUSSELS and passing through LOUVAIN a town which to those few of the Bn who were serving with the original 1st Bn during the campaign in 1940, brought back memories.
Fwd Coys were in contact with the enemy who were holding the line of the NORTH bank of the canal. The enemy however had little arty and only a few mortars so the posn was a very quiet one.
Allied convoys moving through Belgium, 1944. (From FB - https://www.facebook.com/groups/859603390775800/)
Alternative Information (from books, personal accounts)
We halted for the night at a group of farms south of Brussels and early next morning moved off again in our lorries, by-passing the city in the region of Waterloo — in the grey morning mist the Lion monument loomed up on our left. WIG Wilson's - A Short History of The First Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers in North-West Europe
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