As a Corporal in 13 Platoon, “D” Company, 7 (Galloway) Battalion, KOSB, Bill was airlifted to Arnhem and landed nearby in a glider on September 17, 1944. After days of fierce fighting he was ...

He was in the rear party of the 7th Battallion KOSB and flying out the next day to join up with the rest of his battalion at Arnhem. It didn’t take much figuring out where we were going.

When the order to retreat from Arnhem was given on 25th September, a 740 - strong battalion had been reduced to four officers and 72 soldiers. Of KOSB fighters engaged in the operation, 90 per ...

Motor Transport Battalion HQ OF 7TH KOSB ... My Dad William Wheeler was in the border regiment and was captured in Arnhem in September 1944.

The next big test for 5th KOSB was Operation Blackcock. On 21st Jan 45 the German village of Waldfeucht was to be taken. At 1 am the operation started and by 3.30 am the village was secured.

Former KOSB soldier Ogilvie Dickson Credit: ITV Border. Among them will be Ogilvie Dickson, who served with the KOSB in Malaya: It is 60 years since the regiment left these shores for unknown ...

The KOSB's as part of the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Div. Was sent to France with the BEF. Most of the Phoney war was spent by my father around Lille in NE France.