Major John Aitken (in flat hat) leading the Squadron through Auxi-le-Chateau, 1944

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

Major John Lampert Aitken MC was later killed, aged 30, when his scout car hit a mine during a reconnaissance patrol near Asch (As) in Belgium on 20 September 1944.

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