'John Currie's grave near Camilly', Normandy, 1944

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

Brigadier John Currie MC, a veteran of World War One, was commanding 4th Armoured Brigade in Normandy. After running an order group in Bretteville, the group was dispersing from the railway station and he was killed by shell fire directed at the station.

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