... years, 1973 and 1975 were literally boom years with 90 and 106 bomb calls respectively. Between 1940 and 1949, Royal Engineer bomb disposal “sappers’’ had 36,988 instances reported to them of bomb finds. Of these, they dealt with 24,326, A total of 15304 were ...

... 397 bomb disposal officers and men of the Royal Engineers were killed and 209 injured carrying out their unenviable tasks. In post-war years, the last Servicemen to die were a sergeant and a corporal in May, 1953. In March, 1962, a civilian bomb disposal ...