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Those That Served
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Fagan, James (113 LAA)
The soldier featured in these pictures was James Fagan. James served as a driver/mechanic with the 113th (Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery having started his military service before the war as a Territorial with the 5/6th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders based in Paisley.
He is shown at the wheel of his Bedford QLB ‘Bonnie Scotland’ which the vehicle markings tell us was Tractor number 3 belonging to J Troop of 370 Battery 113 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery.
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Submitted by: Roddy Brown, Chairman The Scottish Military Vehicle GroupFairweather, John, Walter (Jack) - poss 113th LAA
Chief amongst these soldiers’ descriptions of the horrors of Belsen are the letters of 11407267 Gunner John Walter Fairweather (known as Jack). His son Stephen found three hundred and seventy six letters covering the period December 1943 to November 1946 which Jack Fairweather sent to his wife-to-be Renee. Five were dated between April 23rd. and May 10th. 1945.
Such was the dreadful reaction of the Allied authorities to finding Belsen, they relaxed the censorship restrictions and encouraged the soldiers to tell everyone ‘back home’ what they had seen. Jack Fairweather makes this very important observation in his first (and longest) letter dated 23rd. April 1945, four days after his arrival.
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFarrar, Samuel Baxter (113 LAA)
Gunner - C Troop. 368 Battery.
113 LIGHT ANTI-AIRCRAFT REGIMENT ROYAL ARTILLERY
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Awarded CROIX DE GUERRE WITH PALM
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFay, Vincent Capt. (Army Chaplain)
British Army chaplain of 9th British General Hospital
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Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFegan, Christopher Edward (Cpl)
REME
My father was a corporal in Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
Submitted by: Coin FeganFergusson, Keith Maxwell (Medical Student)
Medical Student. St Thomas
Contacted Typhus at Belsen
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFiennes, Nathaniel (Lord Saye & Sele)
We went into lots o huts and camps. The smell was appalling, and there were rows and rows of people inside. You couldn’t tell whether they were dead or alive: they might have been either.
“And then outside we saw a tractor and trailer with heaps of bodies on it, and a German sitting on top of the bodies smoking a cigarette.
“Close by there was an enormous pit and in it perhaps 500 bodies, but it may have been a thousand, I don’t know. It was a very large number of bodies.”
Submitted by: ArchiveFINDLAY, JAMES (KIA)
Name: FINDLAY, JAMES
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 369 Bty., 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Infantry) Lt. A.A. Regt.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 11/07/1944
Service No: 2880635
Additional information: Son of James and Helen Findlay; husband of Winifred Joan Findlay, of Hickling, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: 2. C. 13.
Cemetery: HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Submitted by: 113th DLI ArchiveFisher, Francis George
Army Number 1490783
Rank Gunner
Arm of service RA (LAA)
369 LAA BTY 113 LAA regt R A (DLI) TA
Date of last enlistment 15.7 1939 release leave certificate 16 Jan 1946
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We believe he acted as a fitter on the Anti Aircraft guns (I assume) he had made mention that if shells failed, he was responsible for clearing and reloading the guns.
Submitted by: 113th DLI ArchiveFISHER, FREDERICK GEORGE (KIA)
FISHER, FREDERICK GEORGE
Gunner
Service Number 412152
Died 30/09/1944
Aged 36
369 Bty., 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Infantry) Lt. A.A. Regt.
Royal Artillery
Son of Constance Fisher; husband of Ethel Mary Fisher, of Stockwell. London.
Buried at ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Submitted by: 113th DLI ArchiveFisher, Harold D. (RCAF)
Harold was born in 1920 and enlisted in the RCAF in 1941. He served with 407 Squadron and then No. 2 127 Wing of Tactical Force at Tangmere on the south coast of England. On June 11, 1944, they sailed for France and landed at Beny-sur-Mer, Juno Beach. Heavy losses were incurred by their unit over the coming weeks. Harold volunteered to drive supplies into Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp after it was liberated. No words can describe the horrors encountered there. After VE Day the men in Harold’s unit volunteered to go to the Pacific theatre of war but it was over before that was necessary.
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFisk, Magdalene
QARANC
(Thank you - if you have any more details or a period photo please email liberator@belsen.co.uk)
Submitted by: Julia GilliattFlanagan, Mike
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).
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Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFoley, Martin (Sapper)
Royal Engineer (59 Plant Troop) 866 Mechanical Equipment
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Submitted by: David FoleyForsdick, Dennis Henry
Guy's Hospital medical student.
Forster, Richard James (113 LAA)
55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 06/05/1936
Submitted by: 113th DLI Archive/Belsen ArchiveFothergill, John G. (113 LAA)
55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 30/09/1938
Submitted by: 113th DLI Archive/Belsen ArchiveFox, J P (Major)
Commander of 30 Field Hygienic Unit.
From Dublin, Ireland,
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFox, James McCourt (113 LAA)
2/5 Bn Durham L I (55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA) (TA) Enlistment Date: 09/03/1938
Submitted by: 113th DLI Archive/Belsen ArchiveFraser, William Charles
William Fraser - Ambulance Driver on front. One of the first into Belsen.
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Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFreeman, Thomas Benson (113 LAA)
55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 25/05/1939
Submitted by: 113th DLI Archive/Belsen ArchiveFuld, Heinz Maj.
Dr Heinz Fuld, a well-known consultant physician on Merseyside, died on 21 January, aged 99. For nearly 70 years he had a home in North Wales in Llanarmon yn Ial, from where, after retiring from the NHS, he travelled to provide an outstanding private Rodney Street practice. Dr Fuld was born in Berlin, studied medicine in that city, as well as in Frankfurt, Vienna, Munich, Freiburg, and Heidelberg. He did research in Freiburg under the guidance of Hans Krebs, Nobel Laureate, and followed his mentor to the United Kingdom in 1933 as a result of Nazi oppression.
He obtained his MRCP in Edinburgh before entering general practice in south Liverpool until he was appointed physician to Sefton and Newsham General Hospitals. A major in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the second world war, he was the first British doctor to enter Belsen on its liberation. One can only wonder what distress this must have caused him—a secret he retained throughout his long life.
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveFULTON, ANDREW LIVINGSTONE (KIA)
Name: FULTON, ANDREW LIVINGSTONE
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Bombardier
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 376 Bty., 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Infantry) Lt. A.A.
Regt. Age: 22
Date of Death: 28/06/1944
Service No: 2984157
Additional information: Son of David Smith Fulton and Jeanie McMaster Fulton, of Paisley, Renfrewshire. His brother Angus McIntosh Fulton also fell.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XVIII. E. 26.
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