Grave marker of Trooper Vincent Tyson, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), killed in action, Rouffigny, Normandy, 1944

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

The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) War Diary records heavy fighting on the 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, but no names are listed. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives the age of Vincent Tyson at his death on 18 August 1944 as 21, and he is recorded as being buried at the Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery.

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