1944 - 1949
The definitive research resource for the 1st KOSB from 1944-1949
Blessé au combat
Lt J D Catleugh
WOUNDED - NORMANDY 1944
166595
COMPANY -
Unknown
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
Officer
Date Wounded:
Sunday, 11 June 1944
Location (from War Diary)
CAMBES
Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)
Leg broken and shrapnel wounds. Possibly happened around Cambes.
HIS STORY
Jon Denis Harwood Catleugh originally from King's Lynn. Born in April 1916. Had a wife and baby daughter at time of his wounds. After being wounded in the D-Day landings/campaign, Catleugh went on to become an Abstract artist. He died in 2009. Recorded as Acting Lt J D H 'Catleagh' on FMPast wounded list.
In April 1944, during Exercise HANDS UP (the Battalion's move from Selkirk to its pre-invasion camp near Wickham, Hampshire), he was in charge of loading the Battalion's bicycles onto the trains.
An item in the Lynn Advertiser (Norfolk) 23 June 1944 stated he had:
"One leg broken between the knee and the ankle, and with shrapnel in the other thigh." His leg was set in France before he was brought back across the Channel - then re-set upon his return.
WAR DIARY
Sunday, 11 June 1944
1st KOSB WAR DIARY - DATE OF WOUNDS
Bn area shelled from S.W. Enemy tanks seen in LA BIJUDE area and a small number to 'B' Coys front. Small number of enemy located in A/TK ditch area (0713).
'D' Coy captured a prisoner identified as a Cpl of 12 SS Div (Hitler Jugend) & killed two others of a patrol that was near their forward posns.
