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(113th LAA)

Gunner James William Illingworth and I live at Cheshire. Featured on Cine film 24th April, 1945 More

In April 1945, FRS Team 100 under Lilian Impey was summoned from Belgium to the concentration camp at Bergen Belsen, just days after it had been liberated by the British army. Photo More

Spr Thomas Ingle 285. (W). Field Park Company Royal Engineers BAOR

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 13/03/1939

General practitioner Andover 1946-82 (b Belfast 1915; q Queen's Belfast 1938), d 2 April 2000. As a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk, field hospitals in El Alamein, and returned to Normandy on D-Day. He later helped at Belsen camp, a subject about which he declined to speak. Demobilised in 1946 as a major, he joined a singlehanded practice, which grew to be the largest four man partnership in town by the end of the 1960s. He became senior partner in 1959, and was a driving force behind the new health centre. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailing in his motor yacht, golf, and visits to his daughter in Corfu

Together with Alan Moore, was one of two Australian photographers who found themselves present at the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945. Their photographs unflinchingly capture the horror of the camps.