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Norman J. Gallagher (RCAF Chaplain)
Norman Joseph Gallagher, son of James Gallagher and Marion McPhee, was born in Coatbridge, Scotland in the Archdiocese of Glasgow on 24 May 1917. 23,066 total views
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Les Hansell
‘The last great heave of war,’ according to Churchill, took place with the crossing of the Rhine on 24th March 1945. 19,590 total views
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Alfred Holmes (RAF)
Alfred James Ben Holmes R.A.F wireless, signal Morse code operator. 22,331 total views
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Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Paybody
For nothing could have prepared them as they liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. 22,623 total views
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Friends Relief Service
Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, relief workers and medical staff entered the camp to provide emergency support. In this blog, Education Officer Jenny Carson looks at the reflections and memories of those who made up the Friends Relief Service. 22,300 total views
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Arthur Tyler (63rd Anti Tank Regiment)
63rd Anti Tank Regiment (QOOH) Queens Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry. 24,279 total views
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James Ernest Thompson (437 Sqn RCAF)
My grandfather, F/O James Ernest Thompson (Ernie) of 437 sqn RCAF was there shortly after it was overrun by the Brits. His and two other Dakotas picked up Brass and Medical personell in Belgium and landed next to the camp in a field. They took some people of interest who had been prisoners there to a hospital in France before they realized the extent of the Typhus epidemic. 22,520 total views
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Belsen Our Story
Belsen: Our Story is a one-hour documentary film telling the untold story of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where over 50,000 people, died primarily from starvation and disease in the last phase of World War II. It was released in 2020 and shown on the BBC. 25,578 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. 21,573 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. 20,625 total views
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