Briefing of all Officers and senior N.C.Os. *We have prepared an article using the Field Return of Officers document prepared on this day here

"The return records not just who they were, but how long they had served — and that detail tells its own story. Among the 37 officers listed were men who had been with the regiment since before the war, who had endured years of training and waiting since Dunkirk, and who now finally stood ready. Alongside them were men who had joined only weeks earlier, some who had never yet been in action. And attached to the battalion were a handful of Canadian officers — volunteers from the CANLoan scheme who had crossed the Atlantic specifically to serve with British infantry regiments, and who had joined the 1st KOSB only in the final weeks before embarkation." more...