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Ready to move from Worthing to the final concentration area, stages 1 and 2 of waterproofing complete. L to R Gordon Tidey, Jack Archer, Bert Howe, Alan Murray, Tom Welbourn.
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Accession Number

NAM.1975-03-63-18-2

Description

Photograph: Ready to move from Worthing to the final concentration area, stages 1 and 2 of waterproofing complete. L to R Gordon Tidey, Jack Archer, Bert Howe, Alan Murray, Tom Welbourn. Photograph from an album containing 210 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944. Sherman tanks of 3rd County of London Yeomanry in a residential street in Worthing in Sussex. The crew of the front tank have waterproofed their vehicle. They are (left to right), Trooper Dawson, Trooper Walduck, Corporal Harrison and Lance-Corporal Brown. The regiment was stationed in Worthing from February 1944 until it was sent to Portsmouth on 4 June for embarkation to Normandy. With captions taken from a separate index volume.

Campaigns

World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)

Events

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