'Bill Goodbody finds Peace', North Africa, 1942

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North Africa, 1942.

Grave marker of Captain William James Perry Goodbody (1906-1942), 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), who died of wounds sustained during the German assault on the Gazala Line which began on 26 May 1942. Goodbody took part in an armoured engagement that helped stall the German outflanking move near Bir Hacheim. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his burial at Tobruk War Cemetery in Libya.

From an album containing 183 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1938-1945.