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James Learmonth Gowans: Medical Student
Sir James Learmonth Gowans CBE FRS FRCP (7 May 1924 – 1 April 2020) was a British physician and immunologist. In 1945 while studying medicine at King’s College Hospital, he assisted at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. 25,229 total views
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Medical Students: St Mary’s Hospital
St Mary’s Hospital, Medical Students. 28,541 total views
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Stanley Richard Phillips
My father told me he was driving either the first or second truck that entered Belsen. 12,431 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – James Heath
Adrian Andrews, who lives in Bishop’s Stortford with wife Gunta and their two children, has written a book, A Pithead Polar Bear, about his grandfather’s Second Word War service, including the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 24,082 total views
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Captain David Eric Freeman- 224th Parachute Field Ambulance
Captain David Eric Freeman was part of 224th Parachute Field Ambulance. 13,404 total views
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Sgt Bill Lawrie (AFPU)
The first AFPU team to arrive on April 15 consisted of Sergeants Mike Lewis and Bill Lawrie (film), and Sergeant Harry Oakes and Lieutenant Martyn Wilson (stills). They continued coverage until 26 April 1945, when another team took over. 18,013 total views
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Kenneth Edmund Clokey
Captain Kenneth Clokey was studying medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London, when war broke out and he enlisted to fight. 15,845 total views
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Sydney Gottlieb
General practitioner who became a leading psychiatrist to jazz musicians, actors, and writers. 31,051 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – Ken Knight
Ken Knight was one of the first men through the gates. He spoke movingly about the experience to the Dorset Echo in 2003. Here we re-publish the interview with Ken who passed away in 2007. 26,116 total views
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Sister Mary Bond (29th BGH)
Posted with 29th British General Hospital (29th BGH) to Belsen in May 1945, by which time ‘I was proud to be a senior Sister with many added responsibilities’. 23,684 total views
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