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Bulldozer Driver Wrinn
Stills from cine film dated 19th April. Wrinn from Hoddington, Scotland, drives the bulldozer. 17,489 total views
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George Wilbert Thompson
George Wilbert Thompson (seen here on left of photo). 14,361 total views
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Hugh J Campbell (Lt.)
I have a photo of my father there. His platoon was the unit that found the place. He was a combat veteran but he once said to me of all the torments his mind kept reminding him of this was the most vivid. He never got over it. 17,530 total views
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Eric Wilfred Taylor
When British soldiers entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp they were confronted with the horror that the Nazi retreat had left behind. 4,303 total views
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Major Harold Daintree Johnson, 224 Parachute Field Ambulance
On 15 April 1945 224 Parachute Field Ambulance was the first medical team that went into Bergen-Belsen. Below is the army description of the situation found, in efficient military language, taken from the archives of 224th Parachute Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. 17,375 total views
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Albert Wood – ‘9’ TROOP 174 Battery 58th L.A.A
This letter was written by my uncle, Albert Wood, to his wife Jenny. 14,898 total views
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Children’s Swings and Playtime at Belsen
The 113th Durham Light Infantry built swings for the children at Bergen Belsen. 15,954 total views
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Gilbert King, 249 Battery (Oxford Yeomanry) RA
There were tears as the Jewish men and women once held at the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany met Gilbert King, 96, who is one of only three former soldiers still alive of those who took the camp for the Allies in April 1945. 14,933 total views
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First in – 63rd Anti Tank Regt.
A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry). 17,688 total views
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Albert “Paddy” Sutton – RAF
A photo album from an Irish second World War veteran who was present at the Liberation of Belsen concentration camp has been made public for the first time. 17,488 total views
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