article_snippet.sent: GERRY BRISCOE was a butcher when GERRY BRISCOE joined up at 18, a year later GERRY BRISCOE was putting GERRY BRISCOE life on the line by storming a Normandy beach.
article_snippet.sent: It was GERRY BRISCOE first ever action and a terrifying experience for a hardened veteran
article_snippet.sent: A sapper with the Royal Engineers, GERRY BRISCOE owes his life to a stroke of luck.
article_snippet.sent: On D-Day I should have been the last one in the boat to be the first one out because I was carrying a charge to blow up a pill box,’ GERRY BRISCOE recalled.
article_snippet.sent: The lad that got out the boat first drowned straight away because the boat went over GERRY BRISCOE.
article_snippet.sent: Battle was raging when GERRY BRISCOE reached shore and discovered a pill box had already been blown up by a shell, but there were chaotic scenes all around.
article_snippet.sent: ’ GERRY BRISCOE said: ‘You are frightened to death really, I remember it well.
article_snippet.sent: GERRY BRISCOE was among the first troops into Brussels and recalled the local citizens coming out with bowls of warm water, because the soldiers were covered in dirt, and meat sandwiches.
article_snippet.sent: After the war GERRY BRISCOE returned to working as a butcher.