1944 - 1949
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1st KOSB WAR DIARIES
1st KOSB WAR DIARIES - NORMANDY
Tuesday, 12 September 1944
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WAR DIARY
SUMMARY OF EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Quiet day. Training continues throughout Bn.
ALTERNATIVE SOURCES
Personal accounts, other War Diaries and excerpts from books
From 9th Infantry Brigade War Diary for 12th September:
Day was wholely devoted to the perfecting of final details for the parade tomorrow. The band of the Life Guards now att 8 Corps will do the honours for the march past of 2 Lincolns. 1 KOSB and 2 RUR having their own pipe bands are “self contained” in this respect.
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CASUALTIES ON THIS DAY
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DIED ON THIS DAY
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A soldier with the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, training with a short-arm mine-detector at Denmead, Hampshire, 29 April 1944. IWM