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Don Sheppard – Despatch Rider
Ahead of the 75th anniversary of Bergen-Belsen’s liberation, former despatch rider Don Sheppard, now 99, recalls what he discovered at the Nazi death camp 26,411 total views
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Neville Foote
ONE of Britain’s last surviving D-Day heroes has told how he liberated occupied France armed with only a fold-up bike and a misfiring gun 75 years on from the landings. 25,518 total views
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British POW Liberated
My Grandad was also liberated from Bergen-Belsen in Apr 1945. 23,885 total views
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Stanley Levitt – 113th LAA
“My grandad – Stanley Levitt, born and raised in 1 St Hilda Crescent on the Headland.” 21,163 total views
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John Goff Kilner (Medical Student)
Middlesex Hospital 21,825 total views
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William Stanley Webb – Royal Artillery (113th?)
My granddad, William Stanley Webb. He served in ww2 for 5 years. 22,247 total views
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Liberation Day
Despite the camp being entered first on Sunday 15 April 1945, by eight men of the 6th SAS and then 1–3000 men of 11 and 29 Armoured Brigade, these troops stayed no more than a few hours and moved out to continue the war. 22,487 total views
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Albert Norman Turner (Tom)
Here is a picture of my late father Albert Norman Turner (Tom) 59 Mechanical Equipment platoon sitting right to one of Reg Price’s painted signs. 22,300 total views
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Charles Kyndt – Medical Student
Charles Kyndt – medical student at Belsen. The London Hospital 21,620 total views
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Norman Turgel (53 FSS)
Norman Turgel, a soldier in the British Army, met the woman whom he immediately knew he would marry. Just days later, they were engaged. (53 Field Security section of British Intelligence Corps) 28,835 total views