'Armour and gunners concentrating behind a ridge held by "B" Squadron during the infantry attack on Cheux', 27 June 1944

Photograph by Major W H J, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945), 1944.

The attack on Cheux was part of Operation EPSOM which was designed to outflank and seize the German-occupied city of Caen during the Battle of Normandy. 'B' Squadron 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) held the ridge enabling them to overlook the nearby village of Mouen.

From a photograph album containing 210 photographs compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944.