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Eric Trott – RAMC
Social worker Andy Strowman would like the council to honour this ‘humble, kind and gentle man’ with a memorial plaque in Edward Street where he lived. 13,393 total views
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James Norman Matthews
James Norman Matthews – some photographs sent back to home while he was stationed abroad i.e. France, Antwerp Oct 1944, Brunswick West Germany Aug 1945. Assisted the liberation of Belsen POW camp. He was entitled to wear two cap badges – Royal Honourable Artillery. 15,125 total views
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Charles Hall 113th DLI
When Charles Hall was told his unit would be travelling behind enemy lines to take charge of a Nazi concentration camp, he could hardly have imagined the horrors he was about to encounter. Paul Willis, Northen Echo, meets a man who helped liberate Belsen. 20,474 total views
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E W Blackbell (113th LAA)
Blackbell, E W (Capt.) (113 LAA) Birth 17 Aug 1912 Sunderland, Durham, England Death 1981 Sunderland, Durham, England 15,044 total views
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William Aubrey Southwood
William Aubrey Southwood. 1st December 1919 – 20th June 2007. Army No. 3966329 13,516 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – Motherwell Times
Motherwell and Wishaw ‘s MP had her own thoughts as she signed a book of commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day. 15,830 total views
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George Edward Packman – British Red Cross
British Red Cross. 19,391 total views
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William Edward Yapp
WWII Army Catering Corps, landed Arromanches D-Day+1, slight wound in advance on Caen, involved in liberation of Belsen. 16,274 total views
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William Atheral George Shepheard III
Army Medical Corps. 15,877 total views
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John Morris (113th LAA) Despatch Rider
My grand father, gunner John Morris was present at the Liberation. He was a dispatch rider in the Royal Artillery attached to a Light Anti Aircraft regiment. 16,604 total views
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