Abandoned German artillery, Lower Saxony, Germany, 1945

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

An abandoned, damaged German 105 mm gun with Allied jeep in the background.

In the last weeks of the World War Two (1939-1945) 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) were in action in Lower Saxony. Opposition was relatively light and casualties were low. The Sharpshooters war diary records that opposition was light and that the German forces were abandoning artillery and equipment as they retreated.

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