'Guard parade Westbury', 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Wiltshire, 1941

Photograph compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, 1941.

Soldiers of 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) wearing steel helmets, gas mask cases and holstered revolvers march across Market Place in Westbury in Wiltshire. The war memorial in front of the town hall was demolished in the 1970s to make way for parking spaces. The softskin vehicles in the picture bear the rhinoceros badge of the 1st Armoured Division and the and arm of service number '62'. There is also the same unit insignia and number on a sign attached to the front of the town hall.

The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)'s initial road and rail move to Westbury in Wiltshire occurred at the end of May 1941. According to the unit's war diary, on 1 June 1941, the Sharpshooters numbered 40 officers and 589 other ranks. It was equipped with 22 Cruiser tanks (including Marks VI, V and VIa), 26 light tanks, 10 scout cars and 7 personnel carriers, along with around 65 soft-skin vehicles and 17 motorcycles. The 3rd County of Yeomanry undertook training at Westbury until mid-August. It then moved to Avonmouth and embarked on the voyage to North Africa.

From a photograph album containing 620 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).