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Mada Clare – Nurse (QAIMNS)
Mada Clare was born in Acle in June 1923 and was one of 11 brothers and sisters. 15,007 total views
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Report on Nursing Matters August 1945
Dr. T.V. Layton SMO and Miss K. Doherty Matron, arrived at Belsen Camp from London on 11/7/45, having reported at 21 Army Group and 30 Corps Headquarters en route – as the signal notifying arrival had not been received no accommodation for U.N.R.R.A. personnel was available. 12,323 total views
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Marie Brown
Marie was born in Chorley in Lancashire in 1923. Her father was the manager of a cotton factory, but during the Great Recession, the factory closed down and the family were plunged into poverty with no social welfare safety net. 12,091 total views
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Duncan Campbell
Duncan is standing, second from left. Back of the photo says, “The Belsen Gang, Calais 45” 13,527 total views
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Acton Henry Gordon Gibbon (Spud)
Spud Gibbon was the son of a colonel in the royal army medical corp who was from Sleedagh near Murrintown in Wexford – an ancestor was the historian Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 11,568 total views
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Charles Williams
Williams ‘Pip’ (Charles) 1924 – 2005 13,006 total views
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Canadians at Belsen
We’d love to hear from anyone with details of any service personnel from Canada serving in UK units or within any Canadian units. 12,030 total views
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Maj Gen James Johnston
A plaque has been unveiled in memory of an Army medical officer who treated prisoners at a German concentration camp in 1945 following its liberation. 14,299 total views
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Ken Allen – 58th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment
“The stench of death could be smelt miles away – even before the concentration camp came into view. The horrible smell was so thick in the air, you could almost slice it with a knife and it made us gag.” 14,471 total views
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Ian Forsyth – Polands Top Honour
ONE of the first Allied soldiers to witness the horror of Belsen will today join in Poland’s Remembrance Day after being given the country’s highest honour. Ian Forsyth, 85, has become one of only 15 people and the first Scot to receive Poland’s Officer’s Cross of Merit for his role in liberating the notorious concentration camp in north-western Germany. Today, he will wear his medal for the first time in public when he joins a special service at St Simon’s RC Church in Partick, Glasgow. The church was the focus of the Polish community in exile during World War II and masses are still said today in Polish. Ian vowed…
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