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Sergeant Ian James Grant (APFU)
Ian James Grant was born in Edinburgh in 1917 and was called up for military service in 1940, initially spending two and a half years with the Royal Scots as a Lance-Corporal. 3,816 total views
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Bergen Belsen Memorial
Despite the annual britishness tweets of the liberation of Belsen, there is no memorial at the site for all the nationalities who went to help. 2,472 total views
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Colonel JN Wheatley
I VIVIDLY REMEMBER my reaction when I discovered that my father had worked at Belsen. 3,725 total views
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Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Swansea-born journalist and presenter who came to prominence as a war correspondent for the BBC, reporting on events including the Battle of Anzio and the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 3,686 total views
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Leslie Cole – War Artist
Leslie Cole was born in Swindon on August 11, 1910, and was to become best known as an official artist of the Second World War – and one of the first Allies to witness the full horror of Nazi death camps after liberation. 5,064 total views
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Harry Oakes (AFPU)
Sgt Harry Oakes, cine cameraman and photographer with No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit, poses with his cine camera for a final picture before leaving the North West European theatre in June 1945. 5,497 total views
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A Grainy Photo of Grandad
It all started with a grainy photo of my grandad. 4,018 total views
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James William Illingworth (113th LAA, RA)
Features in a cine film within the camp, taken on 23rd and 24th April, 1945. 3,476 total views
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Joseph Conerney RAMC
My father Joseph Conerney was born in Co. Galway. As a young man he went to Witham (Essex) to train as a nurse. At the beginning of the war he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in, Holland, Norway and Germany. 3,703 total views
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Rev. Thomas James Stretch
Featured on cine film 23rd & 24th April 4,223 total views
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