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Clement Edwards
As a newly qualified doctor, Edwards was attached to an 11th Light Field Ambulance (LFA) unit which landed on Sword Beach soon after D-Day; he and his colleagues then joined the Guards Armoured Division as it advanced through France and Belgium to northern Germany. 24,045 total views
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Josephine Bunting
Known as Madge, she was born in December 1918 to parents Lionel and Bessie Bunting of Churchill Road Chipping Norton. 24,475 total views
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Medical Report (Read with Caution)
Belsen Concentration Camp Visited 22 Apr 45, 6 days after its capture by Second Army. 26,917 total views
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Martin Herford
Colonel Martin Herford, the most decorated Doctor of WW2 failed to join RAMC in ’39 so he joined the Finnish Volunteers but was bored; he made his way to Egypt, via Russia and Turkey, to finally join RAMC and evacuate the wounded from Greece and win the MBE. 25,814 total views
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Joyce Parkinson. (FRS)
Of lasting influence on my aunt Joyce Parkinson, who has died aged 94, was the time she spent in Germany at the end of the second world war, initially with a Quaker relief team, which was one of the first civilian teams to enter the concentration camp at Belsen. Their job was to clothe, register and begin to rehabilitate survivors. 25,292 total views
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Norman J. Gallagher (RCAF Chaplain)
Norman Joseph Gallagher, son of James Gallagher and Marion McPhee, was born in Coatbridge, Scotland in the Archdiocese of Glasgow on 24 May 1917. 26,846 total views
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Yehuda Danzig
Toronto man recognizes himself in Bergen-Belsen photo. 25,883 total views
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Belsen Our Story
Belsen: Our Story is a one-hour documentary film telling the untold story of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where over 50,000 people, died primarily from starvation and disease in the last phase of World War II. It was released in 2020 and shown on the BBC. 29,712 total views
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Les Hansell
‘The last great heave of war,’ according to Churchill, took place with the crossing of the Rhine on 24th March 1945. 22,294 total views
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Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Paybody
For nothing could have prepared them as they liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. 25,230 total views
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