Grave marker of Driver James Harrison, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, killed in action, Rouffigny, Normandy, 1944
Photograph compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North West Europe, 1944.
Driver James Samuel Harrison (7587846), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, was killed in action on 18 August 1944. He is commemorated at the Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery.
The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) War Diary details the fighting around Rouffigny in the Falaise region in August 1944. On the 18 August it records the loss of three tanks to German anti-tank fire during an advance under the cover of a smokescreen. The casualties for the day are unnamed but listed as two officers and eight other ranks killed with seven men wounded and four missing.
From an album of 211 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1975-03-63-19-82
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1975-03-63-19-82