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British tank drives onto beach
Assuming the photo numbering is anything to go by, following ‘Churchill’ off the LST is ‘Clive’, another Sherman III, from SHQ, C Squadron, 3CLY.
The squared off drive hoods tell us ‘Clive’ was built by Fisher.
#OTD 10th July 1943, Sicily
IWM (NA 4264) #3CLY #4Armd
#Sharpshooters #SWW #History
British tank drives onto beach
Next in the series by Chetwyn, and ‘Churchill’, number 37, is up on the beach and we get a rare view of the tank from both sides!
Sherman III, SHQ C Squadron 3CLY.
#OTD 10th July 1943.
IWM (NA 4263) #3CLY #4Armd #Sharpshooters #SWW #History
British tank drives off Landing ship
‘Churchill’, a Sherman III with a deep wading stack fitted, from the SHQ of C Squadron 3rd County of London Yeomanry arrives in Sicily.
Sgt Leonard Chetwyn photographed the scene #OTD 10th July 1943.
IWM (NA4262) #3CLY #4Armd
#WW2 #History #Sharpshooters #SWW
Pat Dyas with 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry, former of 4CLY by his tank.
Pat Dyas looking rather splendid #Sharpshooters
#OTD 13th June 1944, Pat had a tiger in his sights but his gunner was off having a pee…
KSYM-SAL-22-112 #CLY
#SWW #History
Concrete defences
‘A’ Squadron, 3rd CLY supported 5th Black Watch in the attack on DOUVRES,
#OTD 7th June 1944.
Part of the defences of the German Radar Station near DOUVRES.
From the Jimmy Sale Collection
KSYM-SAL-18-041
#3CLY #Sharpshooters #4Armd #SWW #History
View of the Gold Beach area with AFVs in foreground.
A view across King Beach from ‘A’ Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry’s first concentration area, as the crews remove the wading trucking and waterproofing. #OTD 7th June 1944.
Note the Crusader Gun Tractors!
From the Jimmy Sale Collection KSYM-SAL-18-034
#3CLY #Sharpshooters #4Armd #SWW
British tanks moving along shoreline- Gold Beach
Shermans from ‘A’ Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry, 4th Armoured Brigade, moving along the beach to the de-waterproofing area. #OTD 7th June 1944.
From the Jimmy Sale collection KSYM-SAL-18-035
#3CLY #Sharpshooters #4Armd #SWW #History
British tanks drive up from beach.
More of 7th Armoured Division arrive on Gold #OTD 7th June 1944, this time from the camera of Sgt Christie.
Cromwell ‘T121766W’ from ‘A’ Squadron, 4th County of London Yeomanry leads the way.
The ‘W’ indicates a welded tank with armour up to 100mm thick!
IWM B 5251
#4CLY #22Armd
#Sharpshooters
Both 3rd and 4th County of London Yeomanry, arrived in the Gold Beach area, #OTD 7th June 1944.
#3CLY #Sharpshooters #4Armd
British tanks lined up in residential street.
At least 3 Rams pictured here in Worthing, in front of the Sherman IIs that 3rd County of London Yeomanry would take to Normandy.
NAM 1975-03-63-16-226
#4Armd #3CLY #Sharpshooters #SWW #History
Tank in woodlands with crew.
As well as Shermans, 3rd County of London Yeomanry used the Canadian built Ram for some training prior to D-Day.
‘1st Troop on the South Downs, 1944’ from the Jimmy Sale collection.
NAM 1975-03-63-16-228
#4Armd #3CLY #Sharpshooters #SWW #History
British Sherman tank and crew.
I do like these crew with their vehicle pictures in the Jimmy Sale Collection, this time proving at least one use of ‘ACHILLES’ in NWE.
A Sherman Ic Hybrid from 2 Troop, A Squadron, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry. #Sharpshooters
#4Armd #SWW #History #WW2 #Firefly
NAM 1975-03-63-20-153
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How about a caricature? Continuing with the Jimmy Sale, Sharpshooters theme…
#CLY #Sharpshooters #4Armd
British soldiers sat on their Humber Scout Car
One from the Jimmy Sale collection,
Tpr Williams and SSM ‘Boy’ Jewell, from ‘B’ Squadron, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry, on their Humber Scout Car.
I do love these portraits of the yeomanry with their vehicles.
From the KSY Museum- KSYM-SAL-20-165
#CLY #4Armd #Sharpshooters #SWW #History #WW2
British Sherman tank having engine serviced.
Angel of Death gets some TLC!
This is ‘AZRAEL’, the Sherman II from A Squadron HQ, 3CLY, commanded by then Capt Jimmy Sale.
‘100 hour engine check’ by the fitters on the Continental R975 radial.
NAM 1975-03-63-18-136
#4Armd #3CLY #Sharpshooters #SWW #History #WW2
Sherman command tank crew by their vehicle.
More of Lt. Col Rankin, 3rd/4th CLY, again with tab in hand, by his RHQ Sherman II, ‘named appropriately enough, ‘Sharpshooter’!
With Pat Dyas of Villers Bocage fame and L/Cpl. Voce and Sgts Prior and McArthur.
NAM 1975-03-63-20-210
#Sharpshooters #CLY #4Armd #SWW #History #WW2
Humber Scout car crew with selection of wine bottles. Tank in background, and buildings behind that. From the Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry museum- KSYM-SAL-19-153
Lt. Col W. Rankin and Corporal Quye from 3/4 County of London Yeomanry, 4th Armoured Brigade sat in their Humber Scout Car, with one of A Squadrons Sherman II in the background. Excellent selection of refreshments!
Auxy-le-Chateau, 1944
KSYM-SAL-19-153
#Sharpshooters #CLY #4Armd #SWW #History #WW2
Sherman tank advances along a tree lined road.
A Sherman II from B Squadron, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry, passing through Hopsten,
#OTD 8th April 1945.
Sgt Travis photographed the scene.
3/4 CLY supported 5 KOSB on the advance to Halverde.
IWM BU 3324 #4Armd #CLY #Sharpshooters #SWW #History
Tank crossing anti tank ditch in desert.
#OTD (ish) 6/7 April 1943, photo by Sgt. Palmer during the fighting around Gabes.
Sherman III of 4th County of London Yeomanry, supporting 154 Bde of 51st HD, crossing the anti-tank ditch at Wadi Akarit.
IWM NA1877
#22Armd #4CLY #Sharpshooters
#SWW #History #WW2
Three British soldiers smiling at the camera after crossing the Rhine. Vehicles in background.
As it’s Friday, a favourite from the Jimmy Sale collection.
Capt Kal Berelowitz, Major Ollie Woods, and Capt Pat Dyas, from 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry, pictured just after crossing the Rhine.
And Humber SCs!
From KSY Museum-KSYM-SAL-22-044 #Sharpshooters #CLY #4Armd #SWW #History #WW2