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Alan Willoughby, AFS
Alan served in WWII as an ambulance driver for the British army all across Europe by way of the American Field Service. He was there for the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. He loved his country and was proud of everything he could do to support it. 15,674 total views
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William E Roach (Acting Capt.) 58th LAA
William E Roach OBE 172 Battery, 58th Light Anti-Aircraft (LAA) Regiment Royal Artillery (RA), during April 1945 when his unit was one of the first to arrive at the concentration camp at Belsen. 19,667 total views
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Marie Brown
Marie was born in Chorley in Lancashire in 1923. Her father was the manager of a cotton factory, but during the Great Recession, the factory closed down and the family were plunged into poverty with no social welfare safety net. 14,992 total views
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William (Bill) Roach 58th LAA v2
Commemorations to mark 60 years since the liberation of Belsen earlier this month had very personal memories for a city war veteran. 14,286 total views
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Duncan Campbell
Duncan is standing, second from left. Back of the photo says, “The Belsen Gang, Calais 45” 16,977 total views
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Sally Wideroff – JDC Relief Worker
Sally Wideroff (born Sally Bendremer), a JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE) relief worker, spent thirteen months in the British Zone of Germany where she worked first in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Warburg children’s home in Hamburg-Blankenese. 17,705 total views
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Acton Henry Gordon Gibbon (Spud)
Spud Gibbon was the son of a colonel in the royal army medical corp who was from Sleedagh near Murrintown in Wexford – an ancestor was the historian Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 15,454 total views
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Mada Clare – Nurse (QAIMNS)
Mada Clare was born in Acle in June 1923 and was one of 11 brothers and sisters. 18,685 total views
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Maj Gen James Johnston
A plaque has been unveiled in memory of an Army medical officer who treated prisoners at a German concentration camp in 1945 following its liberation. 17,695 total views
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Canadians at Belsen
We’d love to hear from anyone with details of any service personnel from Canada serving in UK units or within any Canadian units. 14,770 total views
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