Out on line maintenance in readiness for an artillery barrage, Sangro River area, November 1943

Photograph, World War Two, Italy (1943-1945), 1943.

The two men, Gunner L K King of Herne Hill, and Lance Bombadier T R Sleightholme of Cumberland, keep low in order not to present a target to any watching German snipers. The sign to the right warns soldiers of 78th Division against exposing themselves on the skyline.

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