Sapper Bill Astle, standing on the right. Photograph taken in Hamburg, 1945. Memories of a Sapper, Royal Engineers Part Four — From Marseille to Timmendorfe Strand on the Baltic as part of the ...

Nearly 35,000 handwritten tributes from families across the UK have been unveiled as part of a special display at the ...

Half an hour after they had set foot on French soil on D-Day, Sapper John Schaupmeyer and his fellow combat engineers remained stranded on the beach, pinned down by German machine guns, mortars and ...

A 93-year-old D-Day veteran who raised thousands of pounds for a memorial in Normandy insisted today the real heroes were his fallen comrades 75 years ago. Harry Billinge, of St Austell, Cornwall, was ...

Charles is now Colonel in Chief of the Corps of Royal Engineers, known as the Sappers. The King has taken on a new ceremonial role as Colonel-in-Chief of the Corps of Royal Engineers, following in the ...

D-DAY veteran Harry Billinge has dedicated his MBE to the "marvellous" fallen comrades who never came home. The 94-year-old refused the New Year Honour for himself, but took it for the 22,442 service ...

MEMORY LANE: Brothers Harold and Arthur Bartleet, of the 2nd Field Company, New Zealand Engineers, sit outside their primitive shelter at Gallipoli, rifle beside them, arms folded and legs crossed, ...

On the 1/1/38 I joined the Suffolk Fortress Royal Engineers (T.A) as a Sapper - trade 'Clerk'. Drill Hall was in Portman Road, Ipswich. Initial training in drill and musketry given by 2 Permanent ...

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