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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. 21,917 total views
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Jonah Jones – 224 Parachute Field Ambulance
My father, the artist Jonah Jones (1919-2004), was effectively a lifelong pacifist. As with many things, including religion, he was a doubter, but he never quite renounced his principles, for he hated war, having witnessed its dreadful depredations. 18,381 total views
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Tom Scholes (58th LAA)
Tom Scholes was called up for 6 months in the First Militia, aged 21, on 17 July 1939. Those 6 months lasted some six and half years! 21,745 total views
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Arnold Peter Meiklejohn
Arnold Peter Meiklejohn (1909 – 14 June 1961), known as Peter Meiklejohn, was an English physician and academic, specializing in nutrition. 19,041 total views
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Ian Forsyth and Julien Wieciech
As a young soldier in April 1945, Ian Forsyth faced the gates of Belsen concentration camp from the confines of an army tank as allied troops prepared to liberate it and for the first time in his life he understood what he was actually fighting for. 19,432 total views
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Molly Silva Jones – British Red Cross
The human laundry. ‘Going into that place, who could forget it?’ wrote Molly Sylva* Jones of the Red Cross. 20,752 total views
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Harry Morgan RAMC
Harry Morgan, seen here with wife Margaret (nee Walker). 19,914 total views
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Mike Courtenay
Born 14 March 1923; died 25 June 2018 ‘Has anyone got a case?’ 19,679 total views
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Ian Whimster – Medical Student
Ian Wesley Whimster MRCPath was a reader of dermatology histopathology at St Thomas Hospital, London. 18,903 total views
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Marie Brown
Marie was born in Chorley in Lancashire in 1923. Her father was the manager of a cotton factory, but during the Great Recession, the factory closed down and the family were plunged into poverty with no social welfare safety net. 19,805 total views
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