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1940-06-19
Regiment 2nd Wiltshire
Location Lossiemouth, Scotland
Entry 0900: Lt-Col Thomson dep on recce area with Capt Kenrick, O.C A Coy and Capt Hoare O.C C Coy. Contact made with the G.E. ELGIN, for supply of camp equipment and water supply. Tpt Offr, RASC, Inverness, about requisitioning of local tpt 1330: Brig Dempsey arr for lunch and flies along coast this afternoon with Col Thomson. Posts put out at COVESEA LIGHTHO, and an O.P in a private house on the highest part of the town. T/pt at end of day amounts to one car, two light lorries and 6 buses. Night posts mounted in the harbour over the oil tanks and rly trucks containing equipment, and over the R. LOSSIE on the Eastern bank overlooking the beach