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Marie Lillian Gent
Having become quite interested in Genealogy and I’ve been able to find out a lot about my family including meeting “cousins” who connect 7 generations ago in the 1750’s. 12,583 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. 17,107 total views
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George Wilbert Thompson
George Wilbert Thompson (seen here on left of photo). 14,764 total views
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Major Harold Daintree Johnson, 224 Parachute Field Ambulance
On 15 April 1945 224 Parachute Field Ambulance was the first medical team that went into Bergen-Belsen. Below is the army description of the situation found, in efficient military language, taken from the archives of 224th Parachute Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. 18,071 total views
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Bulldozer Driver Wrinn
Stills from cine film dated 19th April. Wrinn from Hoddington, Scotland, drives the bulldozer. 18,166 total views
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Eric Wilfred Taylor
When British soldiers entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp they were confronted with the horror that the Nazi retreat had left behind. 5,228 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. 15,520 total views
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Children’s Swings and Playtime at Belsen
The 113th Durham Light Infantry built swings for the children at Bergen Belsen. 16,783 total views
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Albert Wood – ‘9’ TROOP 174 Battery 58th L.A.A
This letter was written by my uncle, Albert Wood, to his wife Jenny. 15,584 total views
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Victor Long (1SAS)
Those horrific images were seen at first hand by 82-year-old Victor Long, of Essex, a former SAS member who was one of the first British soldiers to enter the camp 60 years ago on Friday. These memories stay with you, you can never forget. 19,280 total views
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