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Harold ‘Tug’ Wilson C Sqn – 11th Armoured Corp
Harold was a driver in the 2nd Fife and Forbar Yeomany which is an armoured regiment, part of the 11th Armoured Division represented by a black bull on their tanks. 18,914 total views
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King Whyte. CBS News Reporter
My father enlisted in the Canadian Army during World War Two believing it was his duty. His father served in the RAF during WWI and his grandfather served in the British military. 19,012 total views
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Thomas Vernon Tubman – 11th Armoured Division
My grandfather, Thomas Vernon Tubman, army service number 14348540, served in the 11th Armoured Division during WW2. 18,053 total views
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Canadians at Belsen – RCAF 437 Squadron
“Every picture has a story to tell” may be a cliché but it’s an apt description of the story that’s been revealed since I posted one of my father’s favourite Second World War photos on Facebook last fall. The photo, dated April 1945, shows seven young men — my father, Arnold Black, is standing far right — in their Royal Canadian Air Force uniforms posing proudly in front of their airplane. 20,038 total views
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Robert McGowan RAMC
My Dad Robert McGowan front left in Belsen (R.A.M.C.) 20,838 total views
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Medical Students
The Friends of Blackheath Halls presented this fascinating talk by Professor Stephen Challacombe on 30th September 2020. 20,327 total views
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Fusiliers Mont-Royal – Canada
As a very young teenager, an exceptional documentary on the concentration camps had been broadcast one evening on Radio-Canada. It had been shown a on weekday at 11 o’clock at night. 16,912 total views
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James Kitchener Heath
Adrian Andrews, who lives in Bishop’s Stortford with wife Gunta and their two children, has written a book, A Pithead Polar Bear, about his grandfather’s Second Word War service, including the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 19,322 total views
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Eric Stringer
Eric E. Stringer 1917–2002 16,751 total views
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Col Gillies – Royal Engineers
My dad Coll Gillies Royal Engineers was one of the first into Belsen he never talked much about it he was 22 at the time. 20,962 total views
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