Major George Crocker MC, 6th Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, using a No. 38 wireless set, November 1943

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, Italy, 1943.

One of the standard British wireless sets of World War Two, the No. 38 set was a man pack transceiver developed in 1942 for short range infantry communication. It had an effective range of around one mile when fitted with a 12 feet aerial. Major Crocker was killed in action on 3 November 1943 at the Second Battle of San Salvo, having been awarded the Military Cross at Centuripe in Sicily the previous August for 'conspicuous gallantry and leadership'.

From a photograph album containing 246 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).