Barnett, Benjamin George Capt. (Later Maj.) (63rd ATR)249 Battery
63rd Anti Tank Regiment (QOOH)
Receiving his orders on 13 April, Lt Colonel Richard Taylor, officer commanding, 63rd Anti Tank Regiment (QOOH) selected 249 Battery commanded by Major B Barnett to move into the neutral zone and take over the camp at Belsen.
Barras Brian William
Barrel, Robert L (AFS)American Field Service
Robert L. Barrel [CM 56, C Platoon, 567 Company (Coy)] arrived at Belsen the day it was discovered by British troops and was completely unprepared for the scale of mass murders, deprivation, and degradation he encountered. Inmates, who were too weak to communicate with their rescuers, were carefully removed from their bunks. They were taken to a field hospital where they could recover for a time before they were transported by air to England for further treatment.
“My AFS experience changed the course of my life. I grew up tremendously. My attitude towards other nationalities did not change. I’ve always thought that people are people wherever they are or wherever they come from.”—Robert L. Barrel
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Barret, Pte.11 Light Field Ambulance
From Grays, Essex
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Barson, Henry (63rd ATR)63rd Anti Tank Regiment (QOOH)
Queens Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry
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Barton Russell William Andrew Charles
Barton, Russell (Dr)Submitted by: Archive
Bateman, Basil Richard3 May 1926 - 22 Jan 1946
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Bauwens Marcel Dr.Belgian Doctor
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Baxter, Major CFA "Alec"Was part of the ox & Bucks regiment that were involved at the early stages of the liberation of belsen and then was one of the few who then were sent to the british mandate in palestine afterwards. Only mentioned his experience at Belsen the year before he died aged 92.
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Bayefsky, Aba (Canadian War Artist)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Beardwell, Myrtle (Capt) Red CrossBritish Red Cross.
Woman at Belsen Just returned to Germany after a holiday at home is Capt. Miss Myrtle Beardwell, of the British Red Cross, daughter Mrs. Beardwell, of Avenue Road, Witham. Miss Beardwell was one of the first British women to enter Belsen.
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Beardwell, Mytle (Sister - Red Cross)Red Cross
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Sometimes reffered to as Bardwell.
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Beckett, Tommy (113th LAA?)DLI
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Beckwith, Barry Submitted by: Archive
Beckwith, CliffordGreen Howards (Yorkshire)
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Bell, J.M.T Lieut (113th LAA)(113th LAA)
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Bell, WhitfieldHead of Section 4 C Platoon 567 Coy
American Field Service
This consisted of seven men and five ambulances
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Bendremer/Wideroff, Sally/Selma Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Berger, Monty (RCAF)After the wing arrived in Germany, Mr. Berger and some friends borrowed a Jeep to visit the
just liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He was shocked to find that, because of
manpower shortages, Hungarian guards who had been working for the SS only days before
were still guarding inmates. The sight of unburied bodies, most them Jews, shocked him even
more. "I was sick to my stomach. Overcome with revulsion," he said in his memoirs. "Those
images stay fresh in my mind. I am outraged and recall them vividly when I hear someone
claim the Holocaust never happened."
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Berney, Leonard Maj. (later Lt. Col.)Submitted by: John Wood
Bewley, Albert Edward 1918-2001. Served in the 79th Armoured Battalion. From Rowlands Gill, Tyne & Wear. Described the horror of encountering the vast pile of shoes.
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Biggar, Robert (58th LAA)Gunner.-Sergt. 58th L.A.A. Regt.
R.A. France 1940;
France, Belgium, Holland and Germany 1944-46
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Biggart, Peter Arnold (Capt.) (113 LAA)113 LIGHT ANTI-AIRCRAFT REGIMENT ROYAL ARTILLERY
85173
Awarded
CHEVALIER OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD II WITH PALM AND CROIX DE GUERRE 1940 WITH PALM
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Billam, EdwardGunner, 113th L.A.A. Regt
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Bimko/Rosensaft Hadassah Dr.Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Bird, H L W Col. (102 Control Section)Commander, 102 Control Section. Second Army.
Referred to as "Commander of the camp" on May 21st
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Bird, William DaviesBirth 30 JUN 1924 • Livingstone, West Lothian, Scotland
Death 31 MAR 2014 • Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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Black, Arnold RCAF 437 SquadronSubmitted by: Belsen Archive
Blackbell, E W (Capt.) (113 LAA)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Blackman, Muriel JBritish Red Cross Civilian Relief Team
Part of the first group of 6 teams. x5 British Red Cross and Order of St Johns (now St Johns Ambulance) and x1 Friends Relief Service. Arriving night of 21st April, starting 22nd April.
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Blake, Harry Royal Engineers
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Blom, Stanley 79th Armoured Division. Landed and fought at Sword Beach during the Normandy landings.
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Submitted by: Janice Patmore nee Janice Blom
Bluett D. (Col.) ADMS - First in?Divisional ADMS.
"The first individual to enter the camp was the Divisional A.D.M.S., Col. D. Bluett, who went in about midday on April 15."
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Bogarde, Dirk https://dirkbogarde.co.uk/dirk-bogarde-and-belsen/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Bogarde
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Bond, Mary (Sister)29th British General Hospital
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Bonsel, AnnieDutch nurse, Annie Bonsel, came with Robert Collis and Han Hogerzeil as part of the Red Cross team
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Booth, A G (Major)1575th Artillery Platoon (Light) RASC
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Borthwick, George (113th LAA)Sgt George Borthwick, 113LAA. RA. 1940-46
Thanks Stuart - we have no contact details for you. Please drop us an email at liberator@belsen.co.uk we'd love to learn more about George.
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Bott, Reginald Douglas (113 LAA)113th LAA.
Bombardier.
Service No. 1550474
Awarded Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm
My father was in the 113 regiment as per the attachment. My mother did say that he was part of a regiment that relieved a concentration camp at the end of the war. I do not know if it was in fact Belsen? Please can you perhaps tell me more as I am trying to complete his journey from the Western Desert to the very end.
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Bowden, Tom DerekCaptured british soldier at Bergen Belsen
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Bowen, A.R. Private. No. 7391321.
RAMC. 11th Bt Field Dressing Station.
I have been looking at my Dads war records, I have attached a picture of his details and British regiment.
He never spoke about his service, like many others but my Mum told me Dad was at Belsen and I would really like to find out if that was true.
Can you kindly help please, it would be nice to know in my latter days , I am 65 in July.
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Bowers, Bernard Was with British tank corps who liberated Bergen Belsen
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Bowers, Bernard (2)Was with british tank core who liberated Bergen belsen
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Bowie, Alan IanRAMC
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Boyd, Edmond Arthur Douglas (Medical Student)Medical Student. St Thomas
Contracted Typhus at Belsen.
During his time at the camp, he became very ill with typhus and was confined to care for two years
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Boyes, Kenneth (Jes) (113th LAA)368 Battery
Quartermaster Sgnt major, In stores
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Bozovic/Vick Helga Anna German Red Cross Nurse
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Bradford, David Cordley (Medical Student St Barts)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Bradley, J L (Lt) (Poss attached the 113)Address of 127 Victoria Road, Port Talbot.
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Brawley, Arthur (AFS)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Brealey, Bertram ClaytonOxfordshire Yeomanry.
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Brenchley, SgtMy dad Sgt brenchley , was a crocodile tank commander at the end of the war . To be honest not to sure of unit etc.
But anyway I thought you may be interested in these couple of pictures from his personal
Photo album. He as sent home at wars end then sent out to Malaya in 1948 with the 4th hussars for 3 years
He just labelled these photos in his album as burning Belsen
Bit blurry as you can appreciate as they are many years old.
Hope they are of interest.
Submitted by: John Brenchley
Brennan, John Submitted by: Peter Brennan
Brererton, Len (3RTR - 11th Armoured)More to follow...
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Bridges, R V113th DLI - Probably 369 Battery
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Brierly, Keith (Medical Student)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Brodie, John Thomas (113th LAA)113th light anti aircraft regiment. Royal artillery DLI
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Bromhead, Albert Edward (113 LAA)256630
BIRTH 07 JUL 1913 • West Derby, Lancashire, England
DEATH AUG 1989 • Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
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Brooks, George Maurice (3RTR - 11th Armoured)11th Armoured Division. His army number was 4620918.
We were told when we were growing up that my Dad had been in one of the first tanks that liberated Belsen. - although he himself never referred to it but for the one time.
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Broom, John Edward Maj.141st (Ayrshire Yeomanry) Field Regt Royal Artillery
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Brown, Ada Evelyn (Lyn)Order of St Johns
Part of the first group of 6 teams. x5 British Red Cross and Order of St Johns (now St Johns Ambulance) and x1 Friends Relief Service. Arriving night of 21st April, starting 22nd April.
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Brown, Cpl (1SAS)Likely to Cpl John (Jock) Scott Brown (3321353)
Jock Brown served with 1 SAS 25.2.1944 - 16.11.1945
Driver to 1SAS Lt John Randall
1SAS and photo Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Brown, EricEric Brown - Royal Navy Pilot & Interrogator
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Brown, Marie (RA)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Bruce, Harry Submitted by: Jan Bruce
Bruins, Mary Joan34 Casualty Clearing Station (CCS)
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Brushett, Fred369 Bty, 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regt R.A.
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Buckfield, George AlbertBuffs East Kent Regiment.
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Budge, Molly (Later Molly Jennings)Queen Alexandra Sister
Molly, 82 from Ashtead in Surrey, met her husband Harold in the desert in Egypt in 1942. The pair married in Stroud, Gloucestershire, before they were separated as the D-Day forces landed on the continent. Molly followed the invasion armies to Germany where she encountered the horrors of the Belsen concentration camp.
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Bullock, WilliamFront line surgeon in the Burma campaign, a member of the team that liberated Belsen and a teacher of surgery in Fiji.
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Bunting, Harold William (113 LAA)He was the eldest son of William and Ursula and was born in September 1894 in Chipping Norton. He had worked as a grocer's assistant and during the Great War he served as a Gunner with the Territorial Royal Field Artillery, serving in France from 1916. He remained in the Territorial Royal Artillery after the war. He married Dorothy Etches in Coventry in 1939 and lived in Royal Leamington Spa.
Recalled to service at the outbreak of the Second world War, he was with 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery in Warwick. He died in hospital in Leamington in November 1960, aged 66.
Chipping Norton British Legion
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Bunting, Josephine (Red Cross)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Burger, Oscar William Alfred1916–1992
Birth 1 NOV 1916 • Wimbledon, Surrey, England
Death 22 FEB 1992 • Leatherhead, Surrey, England
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Burgess, Douglas Archibald1917–1984
Birth 26 JUL 1917 • Richmond S, Surrey, Kent
Death JUL 1984 • Chichester, Sussex, England
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Burgess, Jack (RAF)My late father Jack Burgess was there at the liberation of Belsen prison camp. He was an officer of the R.A.F. Regiment. He never spoke of it to me, but I found out from researching his war record. Later in life dad became a minister of the United Reformed Church.
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Burgh, Harold (REME)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Burridge, Bulldozer DriverFrom Todmordon, Yorks
Bulldozer driver 19th April
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Burrows, Frank Lrdg
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Burrows, G H (Gnr) (113 LAA)113th Durham Light Infantry RA
368 Battery
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Bush, Raymond Aubrey RAMC
After qualifying, Raymond Aubrey Bush was called up to the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the 15th Scottish Infantry Division. He served with them from 1940 to 1945, landing in Normandy a few days after D Day. He was one of the first doctors to witness the horrors of Belsen concentration camp
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Bushnell, Arthur (63rd ATR)Lance Bombardier, 63rd ATR
249 Unit.
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Butcher, Edward HarryRoyal Armoured Corps— Regular Army Emergency Commissions
Butcher, E. H. (W.S./Lt. 1/10/42) (T/Capt. 22/11/45) 2nd Lt. 27/9/41
In Apr 1946 Army List still showing, in Aug 1946 List showing as being released by the with honorary rank of Lt.
ROYAL AIR FORCE.
GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH.
To be Plt. Offs. (tempy.) on being employed with the R.A.F. 3rd Feb. 1943: —
Edward Harry BUTCHER (Lt., R.A.C.) (51055).
Flg. Off. to Flt. Lt. (war subs.): —
3rd Feb. 1945.
E.H. BUTCHER (Lt. R.A.C.) (51055).
Commission relinquished. Flt. Lt. E. H. BUTCHER (Lt. R.A.C.) ( 51055) (on return to Army duty). 29th May 1945
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Butcher, R H (Capt.) (113 LAA)Submitted by: Belsen Archive
Butler, Henry Thomas Archer 11th Armoured Division
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Butler, J (113th, 370 Battery)From Yorkshire
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