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George Barrington Milner (Royal Artillery)
My Grandad George Milner, 1908-1977. Royal Artillery 21st Army Group. 1939-1945. His war ended at Luneburg heath, may 1945, never spoke about what he heard and saw at Belsen. Enlisted 18th April 1939. 42nd AA Bn RE (TA) 324 total views
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Duncan Ridler 1SAS
Duncan Ridler 1SAS, MM 15,492 total views
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Major N.A. Miller – 224th Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC
My grandfather, Nathaniel Miller FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons) was a doctor in peacetime, and during WWII became a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps (a British Army specialist corps providing medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in time of war and peace). This photo (below) hangs on my wall at home, taken in December 1944, several months after their unit’s involvement in the D-Day landings and Pegasus Bridge (a story for another day) and taken 5 months before the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. My grandfather is third from the right, front row, Major N.A. Miller. On 15 April 1945 Major Miller headed…
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Fred Brushett (113 LAA)
Speaking from his armchair in the Hospice in The Weald, former serviceman Fred Brushett introduces himself and his reasons for making the film. 22,033 total views
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Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers
Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers is best remembered for the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, which earned her worldwide recognition. 19,464 total views
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Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes – RAMC
Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MC, MRCS (25 July 1892 – 24 November 1973). British military officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later medical administrator, educationalist and sports administrator. Hughes served in both the First and Second World War and is notable for his role in the care and rehabilitation of the victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 23,417 total views
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Frank Johnson (63rd ATR)
Driver in World War II: British Royal Artillery 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment. 22,597 total views
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Evan Griffiths – Mobile Field Hospital
Consultant surgeon Bridgend hospitals, south Wales, 1951-60, consultant geriatrician Wrexham Maelor Hospital, north Wales, 1961-81 (b Llanelly 1916; q St Bartholomew’s 1940; FRCSEd, FRCS), died from a myocardial infarction on 28 July 1998. 20,406 total views
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Vivian Dantell
Here in the boot and show department! 22,172 total views
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Matthew Westwell – Army Catering Corp
Corporal Matthew Westwell, a butcher by trade, served in the Army Catering Corps formed in March 1941. 19,547 total views