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Keith MacLellan (1SAS)
Keith William MacLellan (1920-1998) (first left on photo) was a modest, quiet man who didn’t like to draw attention to himself. 18,607 total views
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Helen Bamber OBE
Helen Bamber OBE was a psychotherapist and Human Rights activist. She was born in London in 1925 and joined the Jewish Relief Unit in 1944. 19,932 total views
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Major-General James Alexander Deans Johnston
Major-General James Alexander Deans Johnston, OBE, MC (28 February 1911 – 17 May 1988) was a senior British Army officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Senior Medical Officer at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War. Known as Johnnie Johnston. 19,297 total views
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Fraser McLuskey (Rev) 1SAS MC
First in with 1SAS. 13,511 total views
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Johnny Cooper 1SAS
Eighteen-year-old Johnny Cooper volunteered for the SAS in 1941. Johnny Cooper was one of the first two non commissioned soldiers to join L detachment of the SAS the regiment, and helped build the service up to the effective force it is today. 27,190 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. 18,184 total views
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Father Michael Morrison
Five years ago I was invited to give a series of lectures aboard The World, a luxurious ship owned by its super-rich residents which cruises (pace Matthew Arnold): “Round the world for ever and aye”. The day before I disembarked in Sicily, one of them asked me to lunch. “I’d like to give you a book,” he said. 17,863 total views
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Steve Shannon – 113th LAA
Steve – drop us an email with your contact details please. 17,006 total views
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Reg Seekings 1SAS, DCM, MM
Reginald Seekings was born in Stuntney, near Ely in 1920. He attended the local school from five to 14. 13,759 total views
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John Willoughby Gray – GHQ Liaison Regiment
Officer Commanding, No. 9 Patrol, GHQ Liaison Regiment (“Phantom”), attached to the 11th Armoured Division. Recce’d Belsen on 15th April, 1945. 12,656 total views
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