Troops of the 11th Brigade Field Ambulance Unit passing the bodies of two dead Italians, Sicily, August 1943

Photograph, World War Two, Sicily, 1943.

The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, began on 9 July 1943, and ended on 17 August. At the time it was the largest amphibious operation of World War Two.

From a collection of British official war photographs relating to the 78th Division.