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Harold Pearsall
My dad, Harold Pearsall, 97, landed on Juno beach during the D-Day landings as an anti-tank gunner and took part in the assault on Caen. 20,842 total views
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Peter Weaver 1SAS
Philip Humphrey Peter Weaver – 1SAS. Arriving at Belsen with his 1SAS unit Peter Weaver stayed on, as interpreter to Lt.Col. Taylor OIC 63 Anti Tank Regiment RA who were the first troops to stay any length of time in Belsen. 13,872 total views
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John Willoughby Gray – GHQ Liaison Regiment
Officer Commanding, No. 9 Patrol, GHQ Liaison Regiment (“Phantom”), attached to the 11th Armoured Division. Recce’d Belsen on 15th April, 1945. 15,641 total views
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1SAS Belsen
1SAS T Troop at Belsen. 15,542 total views
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Sarah Eckstein (Grebenau) Jewish Relief Unit
Sarah was born in 1916, the second child of Hanoch and Helen (Sokolower) Eckstein of Warsaw, Poland. With her older brother, Morris (Moshe Zvi), the family moved to North London shortly after the end of the first World War. 22,167 total views
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Birmingham Boys at Belsen – 113th LAA, Royal Artillery
Durham Light Infantry by name – with Brummies being at the heart of the action. 2,290 total views
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Joy Taverner – Queen Alexandria’s Nurse
My husband’s grandmother (now 82) was a nurse during the War and has a book-worth of stories to tell. The following are 2 letters that she has written to me describing her nursing work during the beach landings and entering Belsen… 21,099 total views
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Major Francis Raymond Waldron
Dr F.R. Waldron was born in Tuam Galway in 1905 and he died in 1973 in Newport Isle of Wight. He had a distinguished medical career. 12,981 total views
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Wilfred Evans (113 LAA)
1909–1999 18,907 total views
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Fred Brushett (113 LAA)
Speaking from his armchair in the Hospice in The Weald, former serviceman Fred Brushett introduces himself and his reasons for making the film. 20,610 total views
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