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Norman Ernest Scarsbrook
Born in August 1920, Norman had worked as a builder’s labourer before the war. He enlisted into the Royal Army Service Corps and was in France with the British Expeditionary force, being evacuated from Dunkirk in May 1940. 14,796 total views
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Squadron Leader Ted Aplin (RCAF)
Edwin Miller Aplin (known as Ted) emmigrated to Canada in 1930 where he met his future wife Elinor Grave Leef. They married on 4 July 1931. 14,930 total views
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The Red Cross at Belsen
More to follow… 17,458 total views
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Dennis Lewis
He was born in July 1913 in Chipping Norton and before the war worked as a solicitor’s clerk, living at 62, New Street. 14,793 total views
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Major John Grice, RAMC
This kit, wrapped in a green canvas cover, contains some of the equipment used by an army medical officer when on active service, and includes scalpels, clamps, scissors, forceps, a hammer and tins of cat-gut and silk-worm gut ligatures. 15,003 total views
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Eryl Hall Williams (FRS)
On April 21st, 1945, a team from the Friends [Quakers] Relief Service arrived to help clear the camp, to comfort the many dying inmates, and to care as best they could for the surviving ones. 14,910 total views
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George Albert Buckfield
I am writing to ask if I would please be able to add my dad, George Albert Buckfield to the list of liberators on your fantastic website which I came across while doing some research about Belsen concentration camp. 5,629 total views
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Richard Dimbleby “Witness History”
How the first report from Belsen concentration camp shocked the world. 6,936 total views
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Liberation of Belsen (79th Anniversary)
On 15 April 1945, British troops liberated the prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 5,003 total views
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Stanley Winfield (RCAF)
Stanley Winfield was born in August of 1923 in Calgary, Alberta. He left Calgary in 1941 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he served as a private and aircraftsman in Halifax. 15,072 total views
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