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Grave marker of Second Lieutenant C F A Pritchard, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), killed in action, Rouffigny, Normandy, 1944

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

The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) War Diary records heavy fighting on the 18 August 1944 near Rouffigny with three of its tanks hit by anti-tank fire; ten men are recorded killed and eleven men wounded or missing in action, but no names are listed. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records Second Lieutenant Capel Francis Anthony Pritchard, killed on 18 August 1944, as being buried at the Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery.

From an album of 211 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1975-03-63-19-69

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1975-03-63-19-69