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Jim Henderson (113th LAA)
Faded photographs which have been weathered by time still convey the brutal horrors a young soldier witnessed when he helped liberate a Nazi death camp. 6,669 total views
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No 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory
No 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory. RAMC. 7,412 total views
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Walter Gallant
Was at the Liberation of Belsen. No unit info known. 7,964 total views
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The Perpetrators at Belsen
At least 480 people, including around 45 women, had worked at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as guards or members of the headquarters staff. Very few ever had to answer for their crimes before a court of law. 3,236 total views
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Peter Granville Whateley Smith New
Major Peter Granville Whateley Smith who served in the 94th (Dorset & Hants) Field Regiment R.A. 8,027 total views
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Recognise Anyone?
Furthur still from the cine film taken 23rd/24th April. Can you help recognise anyone from the 113th Durham Light Infantry. Royal Artillery LAA? 8,186 total views
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Charles Philip Sharp (113th LAA)
Charles Philip Sharp, known as Philip, was born on April 2, 1912, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He had a sister Mignon. Philip had been in the Territorial Army for several years when it was called to duty during the Munich crisis in summer 1938. 8,809 total views
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Sgt. Lewis Stagnetto, 317 FSS, Intelligence Corps
In 1942, Lewis Stagnetto volunteered for the Armed Forces, aged 18, at Glasgow. 9,020 total views
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Eric Trimmer (Medical Student)
Trimmer was born on 11 June 1923 in London. 8,300 total views
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History Learning Site Account
When Bergen-Belsen was handed over to British troops in April 1945, little could have prepared them for what they saw at the concentration camp. Belsen had originally been built as a prison for those arrested in Nazi Germany itself. However, as the war in Europe drew to a close in 1945, prisoners from Eastern Europe had been moved to the camp. When the British got to Belsen on April 15th, the prisoners were in appalling conditions and between 400 to 500 were dying each day. 7,713 total views