Les Hansell
‘The last great heave of war,’ according to Churchill, took place with the crossing of the Rhine on 24th March 1945.
88 year old Les Hansell is formerly of Redcar – Les was in the Parachute Regiment – 6th Airborne Division, 9th Battalion.
He described his experience as the ‘shock of a lifetime’ when they came upon Camp Belsen.
Archive: BBC Radio Tees, March, 2015
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