A gunner at a 25-pdr battery chats to a local French girl in Normandy, 20 July 1944.
A sergeant of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps bandages the wounded ear of ‘Jasper’, a mine-detecting dog at Bayeux in Normandy, 5 July 1944.
A casualty is carried back on an improvised stretcher to a Regimental Aid Post for treatment.
Reverend Victor Leach, Padre of 13/18 Hussars, reading the burial service for a fallen tankman who was killed in action with the German 21st Panzer Division.in the Hermanville sur Mer sector of Normandy, France. The dead man’s comrades stand in silent tribute at the graveside.
Sherman tank crew of ‘C’ Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars, 27th Armoured Brigade, rest and write letters home by the side of their vehicle, 10 June 1944.
Rifleman Reg. Oates of Walthamstow and Sergeant James Woodward of Tottenham take up a position with a Piat mortar in a cornfield near Caen.
General Sir Bernard Montgomery addressing Allied war correspondents at a press conference at his headquarters, 11 June 1944.
Troops marching through Bayeux, with the cathedral in the background, 27 June 1944.
Infantry and Sherman tanks wait to advance at the start of Operation ‘Goodwood’, 18 July 1944. A Sherman Firefly is in the foreground.
Major General George ‘Pip’ Roberts (right), commanding 11th Armoured Division, with Brigadier Roscoe Harvey of 29th Armoured Brigade, and a Sherman command tank, Normandy, 15 August 1944.
British Sherman tanks and infantry during the advance on Caen, Normandy, 9 July 1944.
Captain L Cotton MM (left, wearing a ‘liberated’ German Iron Cross!) with his Cromwell VI tank, ‘Old Bill’, and crew of 4th County of London Yeomanry, 7th Armoured Division, 17 June 1944. Cotton had been promoted to captain following the regiment’s action at Villers Bocage.
A union flag hangs in the main street of Les Andelys in Normandy as British forces arrive, 31 August 1944. The woman in the foreground is Madame Scarlett, wife of an expatriate Englishman and owner of the Hotel des Fleurs.
