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James William Illingworth (113th LAA, RA)
Features in a cine film within the camp, taken on 23rd and 24th April, 1945. 17,274 total views
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George Hanks (63 ATR)
GEORGE Hanks was only a teenager when he and his colleagues from the Oxfordshire Yeomanry helped to liberate the notorious Belsen concentration camp, and the horrors he saw have never left him. 17,806 total views
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Harry Oakes (AFPU)
Sgt Harry Oakes, cine cameraman and photographer with No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit, poses with his cine camera for a final picture before leaving the North West European theatre in June 1945. 19,754 total views
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A Grainy Photo of Grandad
It all started with a grainy photo of my grandad. 18,420 total views
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Brian Villette (113th LAA)
Brian Vaugh Norman Villette – Captain 113th LAA, Royal Artillery. 16,656 total views
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Bergen Belsen Memorial
Despite the annual britishness tweets of the liberation of Belsen, there is no memorial at the site for all the nationalities who went to help. 3,508 total views
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Muriel Knox Doherty (Matron)
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Muriel Knox Doherty was appointed matron of the No.3 RAAF Hospital in Richmond, New South Wales. An already distinguished Sydney nurse, she helped to establish the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAANS) in New South Wales and Queensland from 1940 – 1944 and co-authored one of the first Australian nursing textbooks Modern Practical Nursing Procedures in 1944. Muriel was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (1st Class) for her work. Arrived at Belsen Camp on July 11th 1945. 15,910 total views
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Sergeant Ian James Grant (APFU)
Ian James Grant was born in Edinburgh in 1917 and was called up for military service in 1940, initially spending two and a half years with the Royal Scots as a Lance-Corporal. 16,611 total views
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Alan Moore, Lt. Australian Official War Artist.
An informal group portrait of soldiers of the Welsh Guards who liberated the Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945. All are unidentified except for an Australian official war artist, VX93880 Lieutenant (Lt) Alan Moore (front row, second from the left wearing a beret). 16,485 total views
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Colonel JN Wheatley
I VIVIDLY REMEMBER my reaction when I discovered that my father had worked at Belsen. 16,119 total views
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