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Brian Urquhart (Major) (Sir)
I left the airborne business after the Battle of Arnhem because I was pretty unpopular there. It’s unpopular enough to be the one person who opposes something that everybody else wants to do. But if you turn out to be right, you get seriously unpopular, and I was seriously unpopular because I was right. 13,931 total views
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British Royal Engineer (59 Plant Troop)
Picture of Royal Engineers Dozer team (59 M.E) that arrived from Maxhafen on or around 25th/26th April 1945. 14,726 total views
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Sir James Gowans (1924-2020)
St Catherine’s College is saddened to share the news that Sir James Gowans, Honorary and Founding Fellow, passed away on 1st April, 2020 aged 95. 14,920 total views
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Hugh Ewart – 41 Commando
Former Royal Marine Commando Hugh Ewart, 92, passed away last Saturday and his family are hoping standard bearers and buglers will give him a fitting send-off tomorrow. 14,279 total views
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Tom Derek Bowden – Captured British Soldier
The Israeli ambassador and Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, were among those who paid tribute at a memorial service to a Norfolk soldier who fought for Israel after witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust. 11,952 total views
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Hugh O Hara – 11th Armoured Brigade
This is the horrifying image of young soldier Hugh O’Hara helping to bury thousands of death camp victims after liberating notorious Bergen-Belsen. Hugh, who served with the 11th Armoured Brigade, sits at the wheel of a bulldozer, a white hanky at his face, looking out over dozens of dead bodies. 15,543 total views
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Bill Millin
Branko Lustig. As a 12/13 year old, the future producer of Steven Spielberg’s movie ‘Schindler’s List’, was in Bergen-Belsen and on the brink of dying when he all of a sudden heard a sound he thought might have been produced by angels. It was in fact British Army pipers playing as the camp was liberated. 16,350 total views
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Sgt Eric Jack Rawlings (63rd ATR)
Here we can see Sargeant Eric Jack Rawlings (R) with members of the camp staff during a search. 14,308 total views
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John Proskie (RCAF/224 Mil Gov)
Canadian, Proskie was assigned to 224 Military Government. He arrived at Belsen April 17th. 14,300 total views
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James Willis Oliphant – 11th Armoured Division
Hi, my Grandfather, James Willis Oliphant served with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry all through the war, latterly with the 2nd Fifes as part of 11th Armoured Division, the Black Bull which liberated Belsen. 14,738 total views
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