'B' Squadron, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanryin action near Kirchlinteln, Germany, April 1945

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North West Europe, 1945.

Sherman tanks of 'B' Squadron, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry in action against German forces defending Kirchlinteln.

In the last weeks of the World War Two (1939-1945) 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) were in action in Lower Saxony. The Sharpshooters war diary entry for 16 April 1945 records that 'B' Squadron, supporting 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, reached high ground near Kirchlinteln with little opposition but lost a tank to 'bazooka fire'. One officer and two other ranks were killed and two other ranks were wounded.

From an album containing 198 photographs and captions compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).