'Tpr Troiano giving SQMS Charles Kearley a trim', 1944

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

Short hair, like shaving, was compulsory in the British Army for reasons of hygiene and discipline. Here a member of the Royal Armoured Corps receives attention from the barber during a break in his unit's advance through Belgium.

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