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Neville Foote
ONE of Britain’s last surviving D-Day heroes has told how he liberated occupied France armed with only a fold-up bike and a misfiring gun 75 years on from the landings. 20,210 total views
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Liberation Day
Despite the camp being entered first on Sunday 15 April 1945, by eight men of the 6th SAS and then 1–3000 men of 11 and 29 Armoured Brigade, these troops stayed no more than a few hours and moved out to continue the war. 15,759 total views
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Johanna Hogerzeil (Han)
Dr Han Collis, was a courageous life-long champion of children particularly in Germany’s immediate post-war horror, later in Nigeria, India, and in her adopted country, Ireland. 15,364 total views
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Stanley Levitt – 113th LAA
“My grandad – Stanley Levitt, born and raised in 1 St Hilda Crescent on the Headland.” 16,097 total views
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William Stanley Webb – Royal Artillery (113th?)
My granddad, William Stanley Webb. He served in ww2 for 5 years. 17,536 total views
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Brigadier Robert Daniell
Having smashed through Belsen’s gates and the first building he came to, scattering guards in all directions, Daniell found a trench 150 yards long filled with naked bodies; he then broke down the door of the camp hospital, in which 90 per cent of the patients were dead. 17,494 total views
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Bedford QLB
The 113th LAA can be seen here on the VE Day Parade. We asked various forums to confirm the vehicles. 20,304 total views
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Albert Norman Turner (Tom)
Here is a picture of my late father Albert Norman Turner (Tom) 59 Mechanical Equipment platoon sitting right to one of Reg Price’s painted signs. 16,878 total views
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370 Battery – 113th LAA
Fabulous photos and details featuring the 370 Battery of the 113th LAA, Durham Light Infantry. 17,525 total views
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Norman Turgel (53 FSS)
Norman Turgel, a soldier in the British Army, met the woman whom he immediately knew he would marry. Just days later, they were engaged. (53 Field Security section of British Intelligence Corps) 22,667 total views
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