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‘C’ Squadron Headquarters, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) billeted at a farmhouse near Unterstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany, 1945
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Accession Number

NAM.1975-03-63-22-106

Description

‘C’ Squadron Headquarters, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) billeted at a farmhouse near Unterstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany, 1945. Photograph: Lt. Peter Roberts and Teddy Bradbury on a farm south of UNTERSTEDT where "C" Sqn H.Q. billetted for a few days. Shows a group of men in uniform standing with their backs to the camera outside a brick building. Lieutenant Peter Roberts and Major Edward ‘Teddy’ R C Bradbury. In the last weeks of the World War Two (1939-1945) 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) were in action in Lower Saxony. The Sharpshooters war diary entry for 22 April 1945 describes how tanks of ‘C’ Squadron and infantry from 1/5th Battalion, Welch Regiment took the village of Unterstedt against ‘token opposition’. 40 prisoners of war were taken. From a photograph album containing 198 photographs and captions compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944-1945. Photographs are of locations in Belgium and Germany. Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).

Campaigns

World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945)