1944 - 1949
The definitive research resource for the 1st KOSB from 1944-1949
Blessé au combat
Pte J.T. Thomson
WOUNDED - NORMANDY 1944
3066997
COMPANY -
Unknown
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
The Royal Scots
Date Wounded:
Sunday, 11 June 1944
Location (from War Diary)
CAMBES
Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)
Possibly wounded in Cambes area
HIS STORY
John Telfer Thomson was born in 1923 in Jedburgh, Scotland.
He was discharged from the Army in 1946.
In 1955 he married Martha Saunders Turnbull in Jedburgh.
He died in 2018 at the age of 95.
*Newspaper clipping from the Jedburgh Gazette, June 23, 1944.
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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.
