Grave of Lieutenant Geoffrey Hird, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944

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

Lieutenant Geoffrey William Hird, aged 21, was killed when his scout car hit a mine during a reconnaissance patrol near As in Belgium on 20 September 1944. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his burial at Leopoldsburg War Cemetery in Belgium.

The Sharpshooters' war diary for 1944 mentions the unit, with 4th Armoured Brigade, situated near 'Asch' (As, Belgium) on the west bank of the canal on 20 September 1944. It undertook patrols across the canal from 21 to 25 September before moving on to Weert on the 26 September.

From an album of 266 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).