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1st KOSB WAR DIARIES

SATURDAY

01 January 1944

157 DAYS TO D-DAY

PREPARING FOR D-DAY

WD CHECKED ✓

LOCATION

Selkirk

SCOTLAND

WAR DIARY, 1st KOSB

New Years Day and a Bn. holiday.


The usual New Years dinner was enjoyed by the troops and the Commanding Officer visited outlying Coys. in turn ending with H.Q. and S Coys. in SELKIRK.


The customary soccer match Officers v Sergeants ended in a victory for the Officers who later entertained the Sergeants in the Officers Mess.

COMING UP

EXERCISE GRAB

Assault landing on the Moray coast · 9–11 Jan 1944

IWM Image of 1st KOSB on training exercise.

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