Liberation of Europe: Water carriers to the British Army in Normandy, June 1944

Photograph, World War Two, North West Europe, 1944.

Water points were set up at various points around the Normandy bridgehead. At this water point at Cruelly, north east of Bayeux, Driver SH Bevan of Osbaston, Monmouth (right) comes to fill a water trailer from the pump operated by Sapper J M Gilmartin of Normanton, Yorkshire.

From a collection of 33 British official photographs, D-Day and Operation OVERLORD.