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Alex Paton – Medical Student
My friend Alex Paton, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished physician who never sought high office in medicine but did good quietly, mentoring junior doctors, influencing the profession, and using his knowledge of liver disease to improve alcoholism treatment. When still a medical student, he spent May 1945 assisting in the liberation of Belsen. 16,997 total views
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Janet Vaughan
Dame Janet Vaughan, (1899–1993) the well-connected daughter of the headmaster of Rugby, great great niece of Sir Henry Halford (1766–1844), president of the Royal College of Physicians, and second cousin of Virginia Woolf, was an expert on blood disorders, specifically pernicious anaemia. 16,012 total views
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Edmond (Eddie) Williams 32nd CCS
Edmond (Eddie) Williams 32nd CCS (32nd Casualty Clearing Station) 1916-1998 seen nere on his wedding day. 16,000 total views
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Brigadier Glyn-Hughes
Glyn-Hughes qualified as a doctor in 1915 following attendance at University College London. He joined the British Army serving as Regimental Medical Officer for the Wiltshire Regiment (1915-18) & The Grenadier Guards (1918-19). 19,041 total views
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Kenneth Curry – Royal Canadian Air Force
Kenneth Dennis Curry, January 21, 1923 – August 6, 2017 , Calgary, Alberta, Canada 18,235 total views
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Rabbi Dr. Arthur Saul Super
Rabbi Dr. Arthur Saul Super, a Chaplain with the British army, was present at the liberation of Belsen. (He was my late wife’s uncle). 17,595 total views
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Roll of Honour
The 113th Durham Light Infantry, Royal Artillery, Roll of Honour (Listed by date order) x19 KIA from July to November 1944 (x15 found) and x10 in Training accidents prior to June 1944 (x1 found) 21,113 total views
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William James Johnson – Royal Artillery
Birth 03 MAR 1918 • Norton Bavant, Warminster, Wiltshire, England Death 29 JUL 2012 • Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 16,858 total views
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Robert Christopher Carr (REME)
Robert Christopher Carr, always known as Chris, was born at 41 Benton Way,Wallsend on 19 Nov 1918. 16,642 total views
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Tom Jackson
Sergeant with the Intelligence Corps – British Army for six years. Following the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Tom was part of the team that arrested the SS Guards on 17th April 1945. 16,823 total views
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