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Jim Henderson (113th LAA)
Faded photographs which have been weathered by time still convey the brutal horrors a young soldier witnessed when he helped liberate a Nazi death camp. 8,632 total views
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Walter Gallant
Was at the Liberation of Belsen. No unit info known. 10,103 total views
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Recognise Anyone?
Furthur still from the cine film taken 23rd/24th April. Can you help recognise anyone from the 113th Durham Light Infantry. Royal Artillery LAA? 10,852 total views
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History Learning Site Account
When Bergen-Belsen was handed over to British troops in April 1945, little could have prepared them for what they saw at the concentration camp. Belsen had originally been built as a prison for those arrested in Nazi Germany itself. However, as the war in Europe drew to a close in 1945, prisoners from Eastern Europe had been moved to the camp. When the British got to Belsen on April 15th, the prisoners were in appalling conditions and between 400 to 500 were dying each day. 9,832 total views
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Sgt. Lewis Stagnetto, 317 FSS, Intelligence Corps
In 1942, Lewis Stagnetto volunteered for the Armed Forces, aged 18, at Glasgow. 10,842 total views
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Eric Trimmer (Medical Student)
Trimmer was born on 11 June 1923 in London. 10,752 total views
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113th Durham Light Infantry at Belsen
Another still from the cine film taken at Belsen (23rd/24th April). 9,827 total views
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Charles Philip Sharp (113th LAA)
Charles Philip Sharp, known as Philip, was born on April 2, 1912, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He had a sister Mignon. Philip had been in the Territorial Army for several years when it was called to duty during the Munich crisis in summer 1938. 10,749 total views
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Belsen Camp Layout
Dr. William Robert Fitzgerald Collis report from the British Medical Journal 09 June 1945.BELSEN CAMP 10,825 total views
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Alexander Findlay
Alexander Findlay (born 1908). 8,957 total views