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Duncan Campbell
Duncan is standing, second from left. Back of the photo says, “The Belsen Gang, Calais 45” 17,005 total views
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William (Bill) Roach 58th LAA v2
Commemorations to mark 60 years since the liberation of Belsen earlier this month had very personal memories for a city war veteran. 14,310 total views
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Mada Clare – Nurse (QAIMNS)
Mada Clare was born in Acle in June 1923 and was one of 11 brothers and sisters. 18,708 total views
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Acton Henry Gordon Gibbon (Spud)
Spud Gibbon was the son of a colonel in the royal army medical corp who was from Sleedagh near Murrintown in Wexford – an ancestor was the historian Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 15,503 total views
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Maj Gen James Johnston
A plaque has been unveiled in memory of an Army medical officer who treated prisoners at a German concentration camp in 1945 following its liberation. 17,720 total views
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Canadians at Belsen
We’d love to hear from anyone with details of any service personnel from Canada serving in UK units or within any Canadian units. 14,801 total views
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Charles Williams
Williams ‘Pip’ (Charles) 1924 – 2005 16,037 total views
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Report on Nursing Matters August 1945
Dr. T.V. Layton SMO and Miss K. Doherty Matron, arrived at Belsen Camp from London on 11/7/45, having reported at 21 Army Group and 30 Corps Headquarters en route – as the signal notifying arrival had not been received no accommodation for U.N.R.R.A. personnel was available. 14,239 total views
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Laurence Wand – Medical Student (St. Barts)
“You see, there was a war still being fought…There was a CCS, there was 32 CCS, there was an anti-aircraft regiment and there was a control unit, there were a few British Army units which had been allowed to be in reserve at Belsen, but their primary function was not to look after Belsen, their primary function was to back up the 21st Army Group in trying to get that war over and there was very little that could be spared.” 16,476 total views
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Edmond Boyd – Medical Student
At 23, Edmond Boyd was a privileged, upper-class Cambridge medical student who wanted to be a journalist, but was encouraged into medicine by his father. 14,891 total views
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