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Clement Edwards
As a newly qualified doctor, Edwards was attached to an 11th Light Field Ambulance (LFA) unit which landed on Sword Beach soon after D-Day; he and his colleagues then joined the Guards Armoured Division as it advanced through France and Belgium to northern Germany. 20,792 total views
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Josephine Bunting
Known as Madge, she was born in December 1918 to parents Lionel and Bessie Bunting of Churchill Road Chipping Norton. 20,584 total views
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Medical Report (Read with Caution)
Belsen Concentration Camp Visited 22 Apr 45, 6 days after its capture by Second Army. 22,453 total views
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Martin Herford
Colonel Martin Herford, the most decorated Doctor of WW2 failed to join RAMC in ’39 so he joined the Finnish Volunteers but was bored; he made his way to Egypt, via Russia and Turkey, to finally join RAMC and evacuate the wounded from Greece and win the MBE. 21,162 total views
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Edgar Ainsworth
Edgar Ainsworth was born in 1905. As the Art Editor for Picture Post magazine, Ainsworth visited Bergen-Belsen three times in the months after it was liberated and recorded in his drawings the changes he saw among the people he met there. 25,445 total views
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Yehuda Danzig
Toronto man recognizes himself in Bergen-Belsen photo. 21,795 total views
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Joyce Parkinson. (FRS)
Of lasting influence on my aunt Joyce Parkinson, who has died aged 94, was the time she spent in Germany at the end of the second world war, initially with a Quaker relief team, which was one of the first civilian teams to enter the concentration camp at Belsen. Their job was to clothe, register and begin to rehabilitate survivors. 21,709 total views
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Alfred Holmes (RAF)
Alfred James Ben Holmes R.A.F wireless, signal Morse code operator. 21,300 total views
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Norman J. Gallagher (RCAF Chaplain)
Norman Joseph Gallagher, son of James Gallagher and Marion McPhee, was born in Coatbridge, Scotland in the Archdiocese of Glasgow on 24 May 1917. 22,270 total views
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Friends Relief Service
Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, relief workers and medical staff entered the camp to provide emergency support. In this blog, Education Officer Jenny Carson looks at the reflections and memories of those who made up the Friends Relief Service. 21,634 total views
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