A Green Howard moving inland
Rifle ready, this infantryman represents the movement beyond Gold Beach after the landing. The Gold Beach range identifies its British soldiers with the Green Howards, whose battalions formed part of the 50th Northumbrian Division in Normandy.
His No.4 Lee-Enfield is the wartime development of a much older British rifle family. The short spike bayonet often associated with it looked very different from the long sword-like bayonets of earlier periods. Such details help locate the soldier in the Second World War, even before the beach setting is added.
