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

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

According to Sale, Connelly was killed when the Sharpshooters echelon unit was shelled five miles north of Rouffigny.

The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) War Diary details the fighting around Rouffigny in the Falaise region in August 1944. On the 18 August it records the loss of three tanks to German anti-tank fire during an advance under the cover of a smokescreen. The casualties for the day are unnamed but listed as two officers and eight other ranks killed with seven men wounded and four missing.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records the death of Trooper Edward Connelly (3325830), aged 29, on 18 August 1944 and subsequent burial at 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).