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William James Johnson – Royal Artillery
Birth 03 MAR 1918 • Norton Bavant, Warminster, Wiltshire, England Death 29 JUL 2012 • Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 5,161 total views
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Robert Christopher Carr (REME)
Robert Christopher Carr, always known as Chris, was born at 41 Benton Way,Wallsend on 19 Nov 1918. 4,001 total views
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Janet Vaughan
Dame Janet Vaughan, (1899–1993) the well-connected daughter of the headmaster of Rugby, great great niece of Sir Henry Halford (1766–1844), president of the Royal College of Physicians, and second cousin of Virginia Woolf, was an expert on blood disorders, specifically pernicious anaemia. 4,198 total views
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Tom Jackson
Sergeant with the Intelligence Corps – British Army for six years. Following the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Tom was part of the team that arrested the SS Guards on 17th April 1945. 3,864 total views
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Harold Pearsall
My dad, Harold Pearsall, 97, landed on Juno beach during the D-Day landings as an anti-tank gunner and took part in the assault on Caen. 4,177 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – The Northern Echo
WHILE the street parties were in full swing in streets festooned with bunting back home in Blighty, Victory in Europe was marked in a starkly contrasting way for many British soldiers serving in different parts of the world. 6,598 total views
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Marjorie Ashbery
THE Post has been researching the life of a local woman, who was involved in a remarkable event in world history — the relief of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. 1,914 total views
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Ronald “Carl” Giles – Cartoonist. OBE
Cartoonist,Ronald Giles,famous as simply “Giles” is remembered for his work published in the British daily newspaper, the Daily Express.In April 2000, he was voted ‘Britain’s Favourite Cartoonist of the 20th Century’. 2,949 total views
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Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan, a warm-hearted Irishman who after liberating the concentration camp Bergen Belsen, fought in the British Army in the land of Israel/Palestine and deserted in order to join Jewish fighters in the war of Independence (1948). 2,134 total views
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Hugh Stewart No.5 AFPU
Major Hugh Stewart led the No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit who entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 19 April 1945, just days after its liberation. 2,437 total views
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