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Eric Lines – 113th DLI
My Father, Major Eric Lines MM RA was part of the liberation of Belsen. 12,269 total views
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Stanley Cruse
Something that haunted my late Father very much near his life’s end in 2013. 11,947 total views
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Medical Students: The London Hospital
Medical Students: The London Hospital 13,465 total views
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American Field Service
Shortly after liberation, a contingent of around seventy* American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers from C and D Platoons of the 567 Company (Coy) was called in to assist in what became a seven-week mission offering aid to the survivors of the camp. Ambulance drivers from the D Platoon under the command of Lieutenant Murray drove to Lübeck on the Baltic to retrieve 130 German nurses to assist with the evacuation of the camp. A section of the C Platoon under the command of W.J. Bell volunteered to assist with stretcher-bearing details and distribution of meals to the survivors. *(76) Ref. AFS deeply honors the seventy AFS Ambulance Drivers…
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Benjamin (Benny) Edwards
My father Benjamin (Benny) Edwards was in the military police and was also sent into liberate Bergen Belsen. 9,344 total views
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Julia Pirie
Elizabeth Mary Julia Pirie, known to her family as Elizabeth but later as Julia was born at Harbury, Warwickshire July 8th, 1918. 9,363 total views
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William Charles Fraser
William Fraser – Ambulance Driver on front. One of the first into Belsen. 11,279 total views
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Cecil William Warren
Interview with Cecil Warren. 12,022 total views
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David Kane (SAS)
My father, a German Jew, was there with the British SAS . He had just turned 23 and lost most of his family, including his mother, who had been deported to Łódź and murdered in Chelmno. 12,125 total views
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Michael Lyne
Michael Lyne joined the fire service in Bodmin when he was just 15 years old in 1942. He says: “Cornwall was a massively busy place. They did a lot of the bombing of the U-Boats pens in France from St Eval. “There were heaps of Canadians Air Force Crews. The Americans were coming and going all the time. “We had eight operational air forces in Cornwall during the war. People seemed to think that nothing happened down here. “We had a training anti-aircraft establishment at Bude, then we came down the operations airfield at Davidstow, then St Merryn, the St Eval, St Mawgan, Perranporth, Nancekuke, and then Predannick on the…
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