'Skipper of 368', Landing Ship Tank 368, 1943

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North Africa, 1943.

A naval officer commanding the Landing Ship Tank 368 which transported elements of the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) to Sicily, 1943.

3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), having been withdrawn to Egypt after a gruelling campaign with German and Italian forces in Libya, reorganised, re-equipped and trained for Operation HUSKY, the assault on the island of Sicily. The unit sailed from Alexandria to Tripoli and then on to Sicily in July 1943.

LST-368 was a LST-1 Type 2 Landing Ship Tank built in the United States by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1942. It was delivered to the Royal Navy in January 1943. It had a short life but an eventful one, taking part in the Allied landings at Sicily, Salerno and Anzio, the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, and the invasion of Malaya in 1945. It was struck off the US Navy's register in 1946 and scrapped in 1948.

From an album containing 241 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).