'At work on a scout car', 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Westbury, Wiltshire, 1941

Photograph compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, 1941.

Soldiers work on a Daimler scout car; they are named as, Geof Rowbotham, Dickie Roberts, Doug Fleming and Paul Bird.

From the Home Counties the Sharpshooters moved to Westbury in Wiltshire. The unit's initial road and rail move occurred at the end of May 1941. According to the unit's war diary, on 1 June 1941, the Sharpshooters numbered 40 officers and 589 other ranks. The unit was equipped with 22 Cruiser tanks (including Marks VI, V and VIA), 26 light tanks, 10 scout cars and 7 personnel carriers, along with around 65 soft-skin vehicles and 17 motorcycles. Sale took a lot of photographs at Westbury, documenting the Sharpshooters' final period of training before being deployed overseas. Sale shows the unit working on physical fitness, vehicle maintenance, weapons training and tactics.

From a photograph album containing 620 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).