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List of Units at Belsen
1 Vascular Injuries Research Team 10 Military Government Garrison Detachment 102 Control Section Early May 1945 102 Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit 104 Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit 11 Light Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. (Field Hygiene) 17/04/1945 113 LAA Regt Royal Artillery 18/04/1945 113 LAA Regt Workshops R.E.M.E. 18/04/1945 11th (British) Armoured Division Mobile Bath Section 12 Displaced Persons Assembly Team 14 Amplifying Unit, Intelligence Corps 15/04/1945 155 Detail Issue Depot 1575 Light Artillery Platoon R.A.S.C. 1576 Heavy Artillery Platoon R.A.S.C. 15th Scottish Division Mobile Bath Section 163 Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. 08/05/1945 166 DID R.A.S.C. 172 Battery, 58th LAA Regiment RA 174 Battery, 58th LAA Regiment RA 22 Field Transfusion Unit…
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370 Battery – 113th DLI
Members of 370 Battery of the 113th DLI – LAA (Light Anti-Aircraft). Can you help recognise anyone here? 16,485 total views
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63rd Anti Tank Regt, Move In
A photo discussing the terms of the truce. 18,737 total views
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Mady Gerrard – Survivor
On 15th April 1945, British Soldiers entered the gates of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for the first time. They found more than 50,000 prisoners, suffering from disease, starvation, neglect and torture – as well as the bodies of thousands who had already died.Immediately, a major relief effort began, with British troops trying to save as many lives as possible, but even after liberation, 14,000 more people would die. Today, 75 years on, SSAFA remembers the actions of the British soldiers, who did what they could to rescue and revive the thousands of people on the verge of death, from the worst terror imaginable. The first men to enter the camp were…
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Tomi Reichental on liberation day in Bergen-Belsen
Tomi Reichental on liberation day in Bergen-Belsen. 16,366 total views
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Clifford Beckwith – Green Howards
My dad Clifford Beckwith was among the first British soldiers to enter Belsen. He never spoke of it other than to say they were told not to give food to the prisoners as it would make them ill. He said he never felt so helpless. 19,880 total views
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Brian Urquhart (Major) (Sir)
I left the airborne business after the Battle of Arnhem because I was pretty unpopular there. It’s unpopular enough to be the one person who opposes something that everybody else wants to do. But if you turn out to be right, you get seriously unpopular, and I was seriously unpopular because I was right. 17,610 total views
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Mervyn Gonin – 11th Light Field Ambulance
This month marks the 70th anniversary of Belsen’s liberation and reporter James Marston went to find out more about a Suffolk man who was on the scene. 19,860 total views
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Hugh Ewart – 41 Commando
Former Royal Marine Commando Hugh Ewart, 92, passed away last Saturday and his family are hoping standard bearers and buglers will give him a fitting send-off tomorrow. 17,515 total views
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Leopold John “Leo” Genn (War Crimes Unit)
WCIT. War Crimes Unit. Arrived 20th May. Produced initial report 22nd June. 14 page document summarised investigators key findings and made recommendations for the cases against key concentration camp personnel. 17,966 total views
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