Graves of Major John Aitken, Lieutenant Geoffrey Hird and Trooper Thomas Trotter, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 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, aged 30, Lieutenant Geoffrey William Hird, aged 21, and Trooper Thomas Trotter, aged 27, were killed when their scout car hit a mine during a reconnaissance patrol near Asch (As) in Belgium on 20 September 1944.

From an album of 266 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).