Photograph: Lt. Col. Rankin.

Lt Col W ‘Bill’ Rankin, smokes a cigarette during a quiet moment in the Normandy Campaign. Rankin organised the amalgamation of the 3rd and 4th County of London Regiments into a single Regiment, following heavy losses during June and July 1944. He commanded the Regiment for the rest of the war, through the low countries and into Germany.

From a photograph album containing 211 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3/4 County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944-1945.
Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).