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63rd ATR – C Troop
Group photo of 63rd Anti Tank Regt. C Troop. 9,875 total views
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Harold Pearsall
My dad, Harold Pearsall, 97, landed on Juno beach during the D-Day landings as an anti-tank gunner and took part in the assault on Caen. 8,487 total views
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Frank Johnson (63rd ATR)
Driver in World War II: British Royal Artillery 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment. 9,989 total views
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First in – 63rd Anti Tank Regt.
A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry). 9,254 total views
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Gilbert King, 249 Battery (Oxford Yeomanry) RA
There were tears as the Jewish men and women once held at the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany met Gilbert King, 96, who is one of only three former soldiers still alive of those who took the camp for the Allies in April 1945. 7,816 total views
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Bertram Clayton Brealey
Today (3.12.2013) at Hartshill Cemetery, Staffordshire a lady spoke to me while visiting a grave. 8,495 total views
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Maj Benjamin George Barnett (63rd ATR)
Major Ben Barnett, one of the first British officers to arrive at Belsen, wrote: “There are no words in the English language that can give a true impression of the ghastly horrors of this camp.” 7,881 total views
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Pipers – Liberating Belsen?
We are grateful to Bruce Hitchings MBE BEM, Kirknewton, Scotland and to Bob Shlaer of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the following story. Last November, Bob read an obituary that appeared in American newspaper, The Week. The deceased was Branko Lustig (87) who, as a 10-year-old Croatian Jew, had been imprisoned at Auschwitz. The obituary describes how one day the youngster was ordered to stand in the front row at a hanging. 9,024 total views
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Sgt Jack Rawlings (63rd ATR)
Here we can see Sargeant Jack Rawlings with members of the camp staff during a search. 9,559 total views
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Major George Wyndham Le Strange
The Strange Account of Major George Wyndham Le Strange. 9,701 total views
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63rd Anti-Tank Regt
A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry). 11,096 total views