1944 - 1949
The definitive research resource for the 1st KOSB from 1944-1949
Middlesex Regiment
Blessé au combat
Lt L W McKay
WOUNDED - POST NORMANDY 1944-1945
264660
COMPANY -
A
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
Middlesex Regiment
Date Wounded:
Thursday, March 29, 1945
Location (from War Diary)
WERTH, Germany
Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)
Wounded by Booby Trap
HIS STORY
Leonard William McKay born in 1912 in Edmonton, Middlesex. His Mother's maiden name was Lambert.
In April 1944 he went south with the road advance party for Exercise HANDS UP, the Battalion's move from Selkirk to its pre-invasion camp near Wickham, Hampshire.
He is reported to have been wounded by a booby-trap near Werth in Germany.
He was awarded his medals in 1949 and was living near Newport, Wales at the time.
*Official War Docs state W/Lt McKay was Middlesex Regt att. to KOSB
Lt McKay was also wounded in Normandy but 'remained at duty'. https://graylingmedia.wixsite.com/1stkosbin1940s/1st-kosb-wounded-normandy/264660
WAR DIARY
Thursday, March 29, 1945
1st KOSB WAR DIARY - DATE OF WOUNDS
At 0100 hrs the Bn set off with a Pl of 253 Fd Coy RE moving in front of B Coy, the advance guard, clearing the mines.
The Bn reached WERTH 1558 at 0400 hrs and was complete by 0530 hrs.
Capt MacKay of "A" Coy was wounded by a trip wire mechanism.
The civilians were a surly and hostile crowd.
7 PW were captured during the day, all stragglers of odd units sleeping in barns.
Orders were given out at 1900 hrs for the Bn to carry out Phase III of the Bde attack and capture the bridge at 182628.
