Erich.
Come to think of it! No I dont think we had captured Caen at this point. But there is where it all gets confused. One of the difficulties is that we, as a company, were seldom together, a very rare occurence indeed. We used to get spread out all over the place, and in sections. Sometimes only one or two of us. It is not unusual to get back to the harbour area then be dragged out again to a totally different area.

Sometimes these forays would be for a day in support of the infantry, or the armour, sometims out in front laying mines, Sometimes it would be a lead off for an assault. bridging. one never knew were, or when, or what, was to happen next. One never knew were we would be next. One thing I can tell you, we were much in demand, The other service branches were always glad to have us with them.

Some of us would get to clear the roads behind the lines, A very popular post. unfortunately yours truly never got many of those jobs, Too young and active!
I did cover the area to the North of Caen quite widely, Not from choice though. Sometimes we would have no idea at all where we were. I could not give the names of the villages that we saw action in, too damned busy.

After the war the R.E brought out a paper entitled 'The way forward' or something like that. It was written to explain why the sudden change in plans, and why certain things happened. events that had no explanation earlier were fully explained later. very interesting to learn why later.
Brian.