sapper

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George Batts, who lived in Barming, near Maidstone, Kent, was an 18-year-old sapper when he landed in France on Gold Beach in June 1944.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2022

He was a sapper in the Royal Engineers, attached to the Parachute Regiment for a few days, with the specific job of clearing barricades.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2018

A sapper contracted a fever and realized that her wisdom teeth were coming in.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2017

Good ­riddance, summer, you sapper of energy, you bringer-on of headaches.Coming to London, I learned a quieter love for October.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2010

He promised that we would soon have a satire acted upon the rebels, writ by the notorious wit Major-General Burgoyne, with curtain-tunes and airs by this same excellent sapper to please the crowd.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson