'I always felt guilty that they kept me behind'

'I always felt guilty that they kept me behind'

Add VE Day 80 to your watchlist Corporal Jack Gledhill of the Royal Engineers never saw frontline action in the Second World War, yet British military operations would have been impossible without people like him. Now aged 101, Gledhill was 19 when he joined up in 1943 and became a sapper — a soldier who specialises in engineering tasks such as building and repairing roads, cranes and bridges, and laying and clearing mines. After completing thei…