1st KOSB WAR DIARIES

"Our chief activity while in Liesel was carrying out long distance patrols, to villages such as Meijel, or to the line of the Deurne Canal. Our front was thinly held and the Germans also patrolled into Meijel, looting food, and then returning across the canal to their positions. We collected a few prisoners and abandoned guns; our only casualties were caused by enemy shelling of the Church tower. One of the Dutch Resistance men was shot while patrolling and died in the Regimental Aid Post. All told, our four days in Liesel were relatively comfortable and much cheered by the hospitality of the people. It was all the more saddening then, to hear that at a later date — when the Americans were holding the village — a German counter attack recaptured it and that the place was destroyed".

WIG Wilson's - A Short History of The First Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers in North-West Europe