Sherman Firefly MkVC tank, belonging to the 2nd company of the 2nd Armoured Regiment and 10th Brigade of Armoured Cavalry, passing an unknown village. Winter 1944-1945.

Polish 1st Armoured Division in Normandy in 1944.

With winter the conditions are tougher for the tank crew. 

It is probably beginning of an oath taking ceremony. The standing officer is General Inspector of the Polish Armed Forces, Marshal of Poland, Edward Rydz-Śmigły. The kneeling officer is unknown by name but he’s a major or colonel belonging to a mounted troop unit.   