Sapper Leslie Harrison

Sapper Leslie Harrison landed on Sword Beach in Normandy and, with the 17th Field Company Royal Engineers, experienced the complete liberation of Western Europe. 

As a “sapper”, he fights his way towards Overloon. A sapper or combat engineer is an individual soldier who performs a variety of combat engineering tasks. Such tasks typically include building bridges, laying or clearing mines, demolition, field defence, and the construction and repair of buildings, roads and airfields. In short, the weapon of engineering. 

Read in his biography how things went very wrong one day before the liberation of Overloon.