Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper

Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper - 5

And so I continued the recce right through the Gothic Line, sometimes sleeping in an amiable Italian's...

Reminiscenes of a Veteran Sapper - 6

After Cesena, I with my platoon was attached as Engineer support to a Squadron of Lancers based at the...

Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper - 1

No doubt there are many others who can tell quite a different story and who experienced very different...

Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper - 2

After a short stay at Gilgil I was included in a group of Sappers sent as replacements to the 16th Field...

Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper - 3

On return from a short leave to the main camp of the Engineers at Sonderwater I found myself rated as a...

Reminiscenes of a Veteran Sapper - 4

The arrival of Sandy Stewart, who had dropped rank and been posted as Major to an R.E. Field Company and...

Reminiscenes of a Veteran Sapper - 7

At the point where the South African Engineers subsequently threw over a massive Bailey bridge, and...

Reminiscences of a Veteran Sapper - 8 and Final

We now became part of the Army of Occupation in Carinthia, billeted in the villages of Fack, Egg and my...