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113th LAA – Vehicle Identifications
Fabulous detective work over on the WW2 Talk Forum with regards to the 113th LAA vehicles to enable postive identification of other vehicles – 162. 24,890 total views
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Frederick Thomas Hill
Received medal from Pope for being at liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp. 24,936 total views
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William Edward Yapp
WWII Army Catering Corps, landed Arromanches D-Day+1, slight wound in advance on Caen, involved in liberation of Belsen. 26,042 total views
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Amy Russell QAIMNS
A.R.R.C. London Gazette 21 June 1918. ‘Miss Amy Russell, Sister, Q.A.I.M.N.S.(R.), Mil. Hospl., Dover.’ R.R.C. London Gazette 18 February 1943. ‘Miss Amy Russell, A.R.R.C. (209113), Sister, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Leeds).’ M.I.D. London Gazette 8 November 1945 (North West Europe). Medal group contains family medals, details at bottom of page Recommendation for the R.R.C. reads: ‘This lady has been attached to the Regular Nursing Service as a Reserve for almost unbroken service since the last war. Quiet, competent, and energetic, she has rendered expert and valuable service by her devotion to duty throughout her time in the General Hospitals of the Middle East. For the past six months…
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Sydney John Fletcher (RAF)
My father, Syd, never talked that much about his wartime service with the RAF Regiment but occasionally reminisced about his mates, guard duties at the War Ministry in London, making friends with the mayor of a Belgian town, always the lighthearted side of wartime exploits. 24,688 total views
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William (Wull) Russell
Served with Royal Army Service Corps. 25,042 total views
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Sieg Maandag
Sieg Maandag (1937-2013) was seven years old when he was photographed by George Rodger as he walked among the piles of bodies in the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 18,236 total views
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Nigel A. Kinnear (Red Cross)
Prof Nigel A. Kinnear who died on July 19th was a man with many talents. He was a distinguished surgeon, a dedicated teacher who acted as a role model for a generation of young doctors and medical students, and a gifted sportsman who enjoyed life to the full with a sense of humour and a remarkable wit. 27,851 total views
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Luba Tryszynska – The Angel of Belsen
Her own 3-year-old son had been torn from her arms and died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. But on her second night in the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp, the woman who became known as the “Angel of Belsen” acted as any mother would when she heard children crying. 34,952 total views
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Marsh – 63rd Anti Tank Regt
A series of photos labelled A J Marsh, 63rd Anti Tank Regt. 26,340 total views
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