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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. 25,235 total views
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Friends Relief Service
Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, relief workers and medical staff entered the camp to provide emergency support. In this blog, Education Officer Jenny Carson looks at the reflections and memories of those who made up the Friends Relief Service. 25,383 total views
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Alfred Holmes (RAF)
Alfred James Ben Holmes R.A.F wireless, signal Morse code operator. 25,870 total views
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Arthur Tyler (63rd Anti Tank Regiment)
63rd Anti Tank Regiment (QOOH) Queens Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry. 27,684 total views
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James Ernest Thompson (437 Sqn RCAF)
My grandfather, F/O James Ernest Thompson (Ernie) of 437 sqn RCAF was there shortly after it was overrun by the Brits. His and two other Dakotas picked up Brass and Medical personell in Belgium and landed next to the camp in a field. They took some people of interest who had been prisoners there to a hospital in France before they realized the extent of the Typhus epidemic. 25,888 total views
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Major John Grice, RAMC
This kit, wrapped in a green canvas cover, contains some of the equipment used by an army medical officer when on active service, and includes scalpels, clamps, scissors, forceps, a hammer and tins of cat-gut and silk-worm gut ligatures. 23,748 total views
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Dennis Lewis
He was born in July 1913 in Chipping Norton and before the war worked as a solicitor’s clerk, living at 62, New Street. 25,609 total views
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Peter Granville Whateley Smith
Major Peter Granville Whateley Smith who served in the 94th (Dorset & Hants) Field Regiment R.A. 25,826 total views
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Squadron Leader Ted Aplin (RCAF)
Edwin Miller Aplin (known as Ted) emmigrated to Canada in 1930 where he met his future wife Elinor Grave Leef. They married on 4 July 1931. 24,378 total views
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George Albert Buckfield
I am writing to ask if I would please be able to add my dad, George Albert Buckfield to the list of liberators on your fantastic website which I came across while doing some research about Belsen concentration camp. 18,314 total views
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