WN37 Essex-Yeomanry

WN37 had an 88mm gun that was responsible for taking out 6 tanks on D-Day before it was finally silenced by a 25 pounder Sexton gun of The Essex Yeomanry.

The 88mm housed in this emplacement accounted for
six British tanks and held up the advance from the
Beach until it was destroyed at a range of 300yds by
a 25 pounder S.P. gun of THE ESSEX YEOMANRY
commanded by Sergeant R.E. Palmer M.M.

147th (ESSEX YEOMANRY) FIELD REGIMENT R.A.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF
THOSE ESSEX YEOMEN
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE LIBERATION OF EUROPE
1944 - 1945
AND TO RECORD
THE LANDING OF THE REGIMENT
ON THIS BEACH
6TH JUNE 1944

There is a Sexton Tank in Ver-sur-Mer similar to the one responsible for destroying WN37 approximately 5km away.