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Eric Lines (113th LAA) Auction Details
Medals of WWII D-Day hero who helped to liberate Bergen-Belsen death camp are re-united with his family 30 years after they had to be sold to pay for widow’s care. A D-Day hero’s medals have been reunited with his family 30 years after they had to sell them to pay for his widow’s care. Regimental Sergeant Major Eric Lines won the prestigious Military Medal for helping to defend Pegasus Bridge on June 6, 1944. He went on to fight at Nijmegen during Operation Market Garden, was one of the first to cross the Rhine into Germany and helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Sergeant Major Lines died in 1977 and…
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Sieg Maandag
Sieg Maandag (1937-2013) was seven years old when he was photographed by George Rodger as he walked among the piles of bodies in the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 6,533 total views
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The Heroes of Belsen
The Heroes of Belsen “If you asked them to build a battleship overnight they’d produce it for you at breakfast!” Such are the expressions of praise made by Army authorities when referring to the magnificent work of relief done by officers and men of the 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA at Belsen Concentration Camp. 20,871 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – Ken Knight
Ken Knight was one of the first men through the gates. He spoke movingly about the experience to the Dorset Echo in 2003. Here we re-publish the interview with Ken who passed away in 2007. 17,298 total views
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Stanley Richard Phillips
My father told me he was driving either the first or second truck that entered Belsen. 4,524 total views
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Captain David Eric Freeman- 224th Parachute Field Ambulance
Captain David Eric Freeman was part of 224th Parachute Field Ambulance. 4,761 total views
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The Signwriter at Belsen
Hello welcome this website section relating to the DLI and the part they played at Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945. 19,065 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – James Heath
Adrian Andrews, who lives in Bishop’s Stortford with wife Gunta and their two children, has written a book, A Pithead Polar Bear, about his grandfather’s Second Word War service, including the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 15,342 total views
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Bernard Levy
Bernard Levy, a corporal in the British Military Government at the time, returned to Bergen-Belsen with Presenter Natasha Kaplinsky and spoke of the memories he tried so hard to forget. 21,471 total views
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Kenneth Edmund Clokey
Captain Kenneth Clokey was studying medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London, when war broke out and he enlisted to fight. 7,820 total views
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