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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

IWM Image of Officers inspecting 1st KOSB troops practising mine detecting

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