Caption 1: "The infantry, the humble foot soldiers, now about to fulfil their classical role." Caption 2: "Commando troops coming ashore from LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry)." The photograph shows commandos of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th_(Northumbrian)_Infantry_Division" class="extiw" title="w:50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division">50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" class="extiw" title="w:British Army">British Army</a> coming ashore from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Craft_Infantry" class="extiw" title="w:Landing Craft Infantry">Landing Craft Infantry</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Beach" class="extiw" title="w:Gold Beach">Gold Beach</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rivi%C3%A8re-Saint-Sauveur" class="extiw" title="w:La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur">La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy" class="extiw" title="w:Normandy">Normandy</a>, France, on 6 June 1944 at the start of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy" class="extiw" title="w:Invasion of Normandy">Invasion of Normandy</a> during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" class="extiw" title="w:World War II">World War II</a>.
Sgt Midgley, No 5 Army Film &amp; Photographic Unit.
1944-06-06
<ul><li>Caption 1 and photograph from <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal" id="Reference-Clay-1950">Clay, Major Ewart W. (1950)      <i> The Path of the 50th: The Story of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division in the Second World War</i>, Gale and Polden, p. 238  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" class="extiw" title="en:International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a>:  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-87006-707-X" title="Special:BookSources/1-87006-707-X">1-87006-707-X</a>. </small></cite></li>
<li>Caption 2, information on the photographer, and the photograph also located at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryPhotoImg.php">Imperial War Museum</a> collection number 4700-29, reference number B 5245.</li></ul>