'B' Squadron, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), and the Highland Light Infantry attack on Jeddingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, 1945

Photograph compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North West Europe, 1945.

Infantry and tanks advance in open ground with smoke rising in the distance.

In the last weeks of World War Two (1939-1945) 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) were in action in Lower Saxony. The Sharpshooters war diary records 'B' Squadron acting in support of infantry occupying the village of Jeddingen on 20 April 1945. Opposition was very light and 30 prisoners of war were taken by 'B' Squadron at a road block.

From a photograph album containing 198 photographs and captions compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).