'Jimmy returning from the brewery', Whitwell, Derbyshire, January 1940

Photograph compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1940.

Wilfred Herbert James 'Jimmy' Sale standing in the snow next to a Morris '15 cwt' CS8 general service truck.

After a number of months in Devon the Sharpshooters moved by road and rail to Whitwell in Derbyshire. The unit's war diary mentions one of the Morris trucks of the road party falling foul of the icy roads. By 31 December 1939, 27 officers and 412 other ranks were billeted at Whitwell.

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