Runnacleave Hotel, Ilfracombe, Devon, 1939

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1939 (c).

The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) War Diary for 1939 records that the unit moved billets from the seaside town of Minehead in Somerset to Ilfracombe in Devon on 26 September 1939. The photograph caption refers to the Regimental Officers Mess but the War Diary records the unit's Regimental Headquarters was established at the Runnacleave Hotel.

From an album of 328 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1938-1940.