A crowd gathers for the funeral of Lieutenant K.C. Kiddle, Trooper D. Perryman and Trooper R. Humphreys at San Severo, 1943

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, Italy (1943-1945), 1943.

According to the unit war diary, on the 27 September 1943 Lieutenant Kenneth Colville Kiddle and four scout cars were sent forward to reconnoiter the road into San Severo. Kiddle's car was blown up by anti-tank fire from a German 88 mm gun on the outskirts of the town. The second car was hit simultaneously, the third car tried to pull off the road and was also destroyed and the fourth car reversed for a few hundred yards, became ditched and was also destroyed.

The bodies of the three soldiers were disinterred by local clergy and lay in state in the Cathedral at San Severo.

From an album containing 246 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).