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Alison Wood
My friend Alison Wood, who has died aged 98, dedicated her long life to the service of others. In 1936 she knew what was happening in Germany and “had the gumption to believe that Hitler would do what he said he would do”. 15,125 total views
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Sarah Eckstein (Grebenau) Jewish Relief Unit
Sarah was born in 1916, the second child of Hanoch and Helen (Sokolower) Eckstein of Warsaw, Poland. With her older brother, Morris (Moshe Zvi), the family moved to North London shortly after the end of the first World War. 16,509 total views
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Fred Brushett (113 LAA)
Speaking from his armchair in the Hospice in The Weald, former serviceman Fred Brushett introduces himself and his reasons for making the film. 15,798 total views
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Major Francis Raymond Waldron
Dr F.R. Waldron was born in Tuam Galway in 1905 and he died in 1973 in Newport Isle of Wight. He had a distinguished medical career. 8,433 total views
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1SAS Belsen
1SAS T Troop at Belsen. 10,039 total views
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John Willoughby Gray – GHQ Liaison Regiment
Officer Commanding, No. 9 Patrol, GHQ Liaison Regiment (“Phantom”), attached to the 11th Armoured Division. Recce’d Belsen on 15th April, 1945. 9,367 total views
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Frank Johnson (63rd ATR)
Driver in World War II: British Royal Artillery 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment. 16,273 total views
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Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes – RAMC
Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MC, MRCS (25 July 1892 – 24 November 1973). British military officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later medical administrator, educationalist and sports administrator. Hughes served in both the First and Second World War and is notable for his role in the care and rehabilitation of the victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 16,738 total views
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Duncan Ridler 1SAS
Duncan Ridler 1SAS, MM 8,109 total views
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Aubrey Milstein – Royal Engineers
GERMANY: Dozens of elderly former British soldiers marched into the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for one last time yesterday for a tearful reunion with the prisoners they freed 60 years ago. 16,200 total views
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