'German prisoners of war being marched back during the attack on Cheux', 27 June 1944

Photograph from an album compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North West Europe, 1944.

A line of German prisoners of war being marched under guard through a muddy field.

The attack on Cheux was part of Operation EPSOM which was designed to outflank and seize the German-occupied city of Caen during the Battle of Normandy.

From a photograph album containing 210 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944.