1944 - 1949

The definitive research resource for the 1st KOSB from 1944-1949
1st KOSB WAR DIARIES
WEDNESDAY
22 March 1944
76 DAYS TO D-DAY
PREPARING FOR D-DAY
WD CHECKED ✓
LOCATION
Selkirk
SCOTLAND
WAR DIARY, 1st KOSB
"ATTACK" T.E.W.T. for Officers on present operational role. Tracks move up North. *We have prepared a detailed copy of this operation using the Official War Diary appendices.
"The exercise unfolds in five stages. At each one the DS read out a Narrative describing the situation, then set a Problem for the officers to solve on the ground. The DS Notes are the "marking scheme": the principles the umpires wanted to hear in any good answer. Together they give a detailed picture of how the battalion was being taught to attack, consolidate, patrol and call for artillery, less than three months before D-Day... more
UNDER WAY
ATTACK TEWT
Officers plan a battalion attack near St Boswells · 21–22 Mar 1944

