WW II British Sniper Photos

[Peter Laidler]

One of the most poignant sniper photos I ever saw was in a book called The Road to Rome, about the advance up the backbone of Italy. Mostly pictures - but pictures that were well described. One showed a rifle buried nose down at the head of a roadside grave with helmet and ID tags attached to the butt. Obviously a hurriedly buried soldier. But the rifle was a No4T and the bodyside pads were clearly visible. Clearly the sniper had got the chop and had been hurriedly buried by his advancing pals. His rifle marking his grave.