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Steve Shannon – 113th LAA
Steve – drop us an email with your contact details please. 30 total views
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Major Jos Mark
From his teens until his death last week at the age of 95, Jos Mark was committed to his country and to those who gave their lives to protect it. 39 total views
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Major Dick Williams
Sixty years ago 24-year-old Dick Williams set off through the woods of northern Germany in search of a “refugee” camp. The previous day, a German officer had agreed to hand the camp over to the advancing British. 40 total views
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Joy Taverner – Queen Alexandria’s Nurse
My husband’s grandmother (now 82) was a nurse during the War and has a book-worth of stories to tell. The following are 2 letters that she has written to me describing her nursing work during the beach landings and entering Belsen… 55 total views
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Frank Johnson (63rd ATR)
Driver in World War II: British Royal Artillery 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment. 37 total views
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To Meet in Hell
British doctor who was forced to play God in Belsen: He was one of the first to stumble on the horrors of the SS camp in a forest – now, 75 years on, a new book captures the depths of wickedness he witnessed as he struggled to decide who could be saved. 18 total views
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History Learning Site Account
When Bergen-Belsen was handed over to British troops in April 1945, little could have prepared them for what they saw at the concentration camp. Belsen had originally been built as a prison for those arrested in Nazi Germany itself. However, as the war in Europe drew to a close in 1945, prisoners from Eastern Europe had been moved to the camp. When the British got to Belsen on April 15th, the prisoners were in appalling conditions and between 400 to 500 were dying each day. 15 total views
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Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes – RAMC
Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MC, MRCS (25 July 1892 – 24 November 1973). British military officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later medical administrator, educationalist and sports administrator. Hughes served in both the First and Second World War and is notable for his role in the care and rehabilitation of the victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 63 total views
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Jim Henderson (113th LAA)
Faded photographs which have been weathered by time still convey the brutal horrors a young soldier witnessed when he helped liberate a Nazi death camp. 51 total views
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Matthew Westwell – Army Catering Corp
Corporal Matthew Westwell, a butcher by trade, served in the Army Catering Corps formed in March 1941. 45 total views
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