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The fitters' team, Ronnie Grant, Jack Shaw, John Byott, Sid Hicks, Eric Webb.
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Accession Number

NAM.1975-03-63-18-131

Description

Photograph: The fitters' team, Ronnie Grant, Jack Shaw, John Byott, Sid Hicks, Eric Webb. To keep the all vehicles and equipment in good working order, each Squadron within an armoured regiment would have a fitters section. These men were supplied by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME). Here men of the fitters section of ‘A’ Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) stand in front of their M3 Half Track during the Normandy Campaign. Shows five men in a line in front of a half track, a gun is mounted on top of the truck, and various pieces of equipment are visible on the ground. From a photograph album containing 210 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944. Photographs are of locations in England and France. Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).

Campaigns

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