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Richard Carr-Gomm
Major Richard Culling Carr-Gomm, OBE (2 January 1922 – 27 October 2008) was the founder of the Abbeyfield Society, the Morpeth Society and the Carr-Gomm Society, UK charities providing care and housing for disadvantaged and lonely people. 30,092 total views
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The Perpetrators at Belsen
At least 480 people, including around 45 women, had worked at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as guards or members of the headquarters staff. Very few ever had to answer for their crimes before a court of law. 20,848 total views
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Gordon Dutton (Medical Student)
Former consultant psychiatrist South Ockenden Hospitals, London (b Hertfordshire 1923; q Middlesex 1946; MD, FRCPsych), d 23 July 1999. 21,927 total views
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No 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory
No 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory. RAMC. 22,197 total views
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113th Durham Light Infantry at Belsen
Another still from the cine film taken at Belsen (23rd/24th April). 24,593 total views
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Belsen Camp Layout
Dr. William Robert Fitzgerald Collis report from the British Medical Journal 09 June 1945.BELSEN CAMP 25,985 total views
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Sir William Melville Arnott
Physician, soldier and university administrator, William Melville Amott, known as ‘Melville’, was one of the last of a generation of academic physicians whose professional careers started in the 1930s when medical science was beginning to emerge as an important discipline. 24,941 total views
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Peter Granville Whateley Smith New
Major Peter Granville Whateley Smith who served in the 94th (Dorset & Hants) Field Regiment R.A. 24,469 total views
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Eric Trimmer (Medical Student)
Trimmer was born on 11 June 1923 in London. 26,018 total views
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History Learning Site Account
When Bergen-Belsen was handed over to British troops in April 1945, little could have prepared them for what they saw at the concentration camp. Belsen had originally been built as a prison for those arrested in Nazi Germany itself. However, as the war in Europe drew to a close in 1945, prisoners from Eastern Europe had been moved to the camp. When the British got to Belsen on April 15th, the prisoners were in appalling conditions and between 400 to 500 were dying each day. 22,907 total views