Assault-landing rehearsal on the Moray coast: 1st KOSB embarked in L.C.T.s at Fortrose, landed on the Moray coast in a ten-foot swell, and took the Greens of Burgie, January 1944.

The CO, three officers and eight NCOs of 1st KOSB watch 185 Brigade's assault landing at Burghead from a landing ship offshore, five months before D-Day.

A 9th Brigade jeep trial: a timed cross-country course of at least ten miles, with marks lost for every minute over schedule and a prize of cigarettes for the winning driver.

A dress rehearsal for D-Day on dry land: the battalion "lands" on C Beach at a bridge outside Selkirk, seizes a crossing over the Tweed as a firm base and races to its concentration area at Caddonlee.

The battalion's officers walk the ground near St Boswells and plan a full battalion attack, from first light to consolidation, patrols and artillery, less than three months before D-Day.

The code name for the Battalion's move south: by road convoy and troop train from Selkirk to a tented camp at West Walk, near Wickham in Hampshire, eight weeks before D-Day.

"D" Company attacks the same earthworks on Stoughton Down from the opposite direction, the afternoon after "B" Company's Exercise BOUNCE, with carriers and mortars in support.

"B" Company advances as advance guard onto the old earthworks on Stoughton Down in a one-hour live-firing exercise, the first of four company exercises over two days.

"C" Company takes over as advance guard and pushes south from Chilgrove against an enemy platoon at the Earthworks, the afternoon after Exercise DAD.

"A" Company advances as advance guard along the South Downs ridge to Chilgrove Manor in a live-firing exercise, seven weeks before D-Day.