'L/Cpl. Johnnie Davies watching infantry moving up for the second phase of the battle', 27 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.

The attack on Cheux was part of 'Operation EPSOM' which was designed to outflank and seize the German-occupied city of Caen during the Battle of Normandy. Johnnie Davies of the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) is standing to the bottom right of the photograph.

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