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Alexander Michie (Lt Col)
Dr Alexander Michie, from Durris on Deeside, was the first British medical officer to enter the infamous camp in April 1945 and the scenes of squalor, death and degradation he witnessed rendered him mute on what he saw there for many years. 18,382 total views
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Michael Lyne
Michael Lyne joined the fire service in Bodmin when he was just 15 years old in 1942. He says: “Cornwall was a massively busy place. They did a lot of the bombing of the U-Boats pens in France from St Eval. “There were heaps of Canadians Air Force Crews. The Americans were coming and going all the time. “We had eight operational air forces in Cornwall during the war. People seemed to think that nothing happened down here. “We had a training anti-aircraft establishment at Bude, then we came down the operations airfield at Davidstow, then St Merryn, the St Eval, St Mawgan, Perranporth, Nancekuke, and then Predannick on the…
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Thomas Gibson – Medical Student
During early April a notice appeared in the Medical Schools of the London hospitals asking for twelve volunteers from each to make up a party of a hundred students, whose object would be to treat starvation cases in Holland under the auspices of the Red Cross. 18,999 total views
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Eric Trott – RAMC
Social worker Andy Strowman would like the council to honour this ‘humble, kind and gentle man’ with a memorial plaque in Edward Street where he lived. 13,624 total views
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E W Blackbell (113th LAA)
Blackbell, E W (Capt.) (113 LAA) Birth 17 Aug 1912 Sunderland, Durham, England Death 1981 Sunderland, Durham, England 15,244 total views
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James Norman Matthews
James Norman Matthews – some photographs sent back to home while he was stationed abroad i.e. France, Antwerp Oct 1944, Brunswick West Germany Aug 1945. Assisted the liberation of Belsen POW camp. He was entitled to wear two cap badges – Royal Honourable Artillery. 15,277 total views
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Charles Hall 113th DLI
When Charles Hall was told his unit would be travelling behind enemy lines to take charge of a Nazi concentration camp, he could hardly have imagined the horrors he was about to encounter. Paul Willis, Northen Echo, meets a man who helped liberate Belsen. 20,692 total views
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George Edward Packman – British Red Cross
British Red Cross. 19,682 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – Motherwell Times
Motherwell and Wishaw ‘s MP had her own thoughts as she signed a book of commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day. 16,158 total views
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William Aubrey Southwood
William Aubrey Southwood. 1st December 1919 – 20th June 2007. Army No. 3966329 13,691 total views
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