'The knocked-out Panther tank and destroyed church at Bretteville-en-Orguilleuse', June 1944

Photograph by Major W H J, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945), 1944.

Within a few days of landing in Normandy in June 1944, and during a lull in fighting, a group from the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) travelled to the village of Bretteville l'Orguilleuse. They inspected a destroyed German Panther tank on the right in order to get an idea of some of the tanks they would be fighting against. A jeep is parked in the foreground. Canadian forces had occupied Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse on 7 June but had to contend with fierce counter attacks by German forces including tanks of the 12th SS Panzer Division.

From a photograph album containing 210 photographs compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944.