'Jimmy, Gaffer, Ollie, John Brown, Winners of the Campsite Race', 23rd (London) Armoured Car Company, at a camp at Budleigh Salterton, 1938

Photograph compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1938.

A group portrait of the 23rd (London) Armoured Car Company, later the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).

The group are winners of a camp race involving transporting a Vickers machine gun. Sergeant Sale is pictured on the far left and Oliver 'Ollie' Woods is in the centre. Woods' day job was as a journalist on 'The Times' newspaper and he went on to command 'A' Squadron 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) in North West Europe.

By 1938 the regular Spring and Summer training camps were being replaced by more intensive training, with the unit growing in size. At the Budleigh Salterton camp in Devon, Lanchester armoured cars replaced the Rolls Royce cars and the Sharpshooters trained with regular Army units. A squadron of the 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's), commanded by a former Sharpshooter, Major General W G Carr, joined the Sharpshooters in Devon.

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