A tank of 'B' Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) knocked out during the attack on Rouffigny, Normandy, August 1944

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

A knocked out British Sherman tank missing its left track and with a shell hole in its gun mantlet, abandoned in a field in Normandy.

The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) War Diary records heavy fighting on 18 August 1944 near Rouffigny with three of its tanks hit by anti-tank fire; ten men are recorded killed and eleven men wounded or missing in action. The diary records, 'A Mark IV special was seen and knocked out but shortly afterward the two leading tanks were hit by A/Tk fire. The driver of one tank succeeded in driving his badly damaged tank back out of range and was able to rescue his wounded crew. Arty fire was brought down on the suspected gun positions and another attempt was made to go forward but the leading tank was immediately hit'.

From an album of 211 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).