Name Directory

RASC from Newbiggin, Penrith

British Red Cross

Art Editor for Picture Post More

British nurse with Red Cross attached to 29th British General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945 Audio Recording

Alexander was born in 1910 in Scotland. In 1943, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and joined the 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, The Royal Artillery. Part of the 113 advance recce party landing on Sword Beach, Normandy on June 7, 1944. Interviewed for the Imperial War Museum in 1991.

58th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment More

American Field Service (ME 32, FCC, CM 97), in a letter to his parents, wrote that the things he witnessed—the overwhelming number of survivors crying out for medical attention, the unsanitary conditions, and the remains of those around the camp who were denied a proper burial—“couldn’t be exaggerated, as they couldn’t possibly be made any more horrible.

My uncle Stan Ambrose was one the first to step into Belsen, he was in the British army and after the war he hardly said about that sad time.

1923–2013 Birth 7 JUL 1923 • 95, Southport Road, Plumstead, Kent Death 12 DEC 2013 • Grimsby Hospital, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England He served with the Royal Artillery Regiment and was based in Hameln after WWII ended

My grandfather who served with the Green Howards and was one of the troops who liberated Bergen-Belsen.

O.C. Surgical Unit, 29 British General Hospital R.A.M.C More

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion

VAD (Red Cross?) JOyce was from Nottingham

Royal Canadian Air Force More

Medical Student (St Mary's)

My father Timothy was one of the Argyll and Sutherland soldiers who were transferred to the 63rd Anti Tank Regiment. More

Team 100 of the Friends Relief Service More More

Armoured brigade RASC company of 11th Armoured Division which was 171st Company. Workshop 83 More

113th DLI - Probably 369 Battery More

Leader of the British Red Cross team at Belsen

Shortly after Frederick and his regiment were evauated out of North Africa, he was commissioned in his Guards unit, rising quickly through field promotions, to the rank of captain. He was one of he first British officers entering both Bergen Belsen and Dakow concentration camps. These latter experiences may have disturbed Frederick more than he would admit. After the war, he became an alcholic and was able to hide the fact long enough to re-enlist as a comissioned officer with the King's Own Rifles. This regiment was sent to Africa (Kenya) where Frederick's alchoholism became apparant, and he was eventiually asked to resign his commission. This may have prven too much for Frederick, for on returning to England,he took a room in a local boarding house and the, one night, while heavily intoxicated, returned to his room, closed the windows, sealed the door, and turned on a small gas stove and went to sleep - forever. 1912-1952

113 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. From South Shields. More

Captain Aylin was commissioned at Llandudno in 1940 and after coastal defence was posted as the first ALO at RAF Tangmere and flew ops in Bostons and Mitchel aircraft across Germany. As a fluent German linguist, he supported the Rhine Crossing with the 21st Army. He was tasked with setting up a Displaced Persons Camp moving into an abandoned WW1 wooden camp with the help of a Polish Doctor, a Priest and a Jewish interpreter who had survived both Auschwitz and Belsen. Here he set up a medical centre, a chapel, dormitories, a ‘swap’ shop and classrooms for children. When the War ended Captain Aylin who had not seen his family for over three years decided to stay in Germany to carry out his duties, he had been tasked to do by Lt Gen Sir BG Horrocks, KCB, KBE DSO, MC. He continued in the post until he handed over the Camp to refugee agencies and was then demobbed. In 1946, Captain Aylin was appointed Head of Repatriation and Resettlement in the post war Control Commission in Kiel. As a talented artist and outstanding draughtsman, his son Clyde presented his memoirs to the Royal Artillery Museum.