M10 Wolverine tank destroyers of 75th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery of British 11th Armoured Division crossing a Bailey bridge over the Meuse-Escaut (Maas-Schelde) Canal at Lille St. Hubert, Belgium, 20 Sep 1944. 

Wolverines on Bailey Bridge

British Army Captain Leslie Skinner, a Methodist minister (left) and an unidentified private (right), both of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomnary light cavalry regiment of the British Army Reserve smoke cigarettes as they wrap a deceased comrade in sack cloth in the British forward area. The soldier was killed in action during Operation Neptune, the amphibious Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, part of the larger Battle of Normandy, code named Operation Overlord. The cigarettes were supplied as an antidote to the smell of the decomposing bodies. Normandy, France. June 1944. 


May he rest in peace

German POWs are being escorted by a British soldier along one of the Gold landing area beaches, 6 June 1944. 