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St Thomas’ Hospital, medical student Alan MacAuslan joined a volunteer party of aid relief comprising of medical students from London’s teaching hospitals. More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA

A Canadian from Aylmer, Quebec. The first Canadian to enter the camp. More

530/55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 14/11/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 29/07/1940

2/5 DLI (TA) 4453730, survived the war and re-enlisted into the Royal Signals almost immediately after de-mob, serving in the Far East and Germany , he completed his service in 1957 , I remember living in Essen, Luneburg and Oldenburg, his length of service earned him a LSGC Medal, sadly he passed away before his 65th birthday. (Thank you - if you have any more details or a period photo please email liberator@belsen.co.uk)

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 31/08/1939

Sgt. Major 58th Light A.A Regt. Men of which had been detailed for guard duty at Belsen after its liberation. A Liverpool man. Willow Place, Fair-street.

Canadian Regt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXVpVwx59g

43rd Wessex Division More

My uncle Lesli Markey was with the first into Belsen he was never the same man when he came back. He spoke to my mother about it once and said they had walked through the gates of hell . And never spoke of it again .

249 63rd ATR More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 30/09/1940

113 Light Anti-Aircraft Regt R.A.

4453856 Sergeant Walter Marsh Death: Dec. 9, 1943 (Training Accident) 4453856 Sergeant Walter Marsh 368 Bty., 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Infantry) Lt. A.A. Regt. Royal Artillery Died age 27 Son of Walter and Charlotte Marsh, of West Hartlepool; husband of Eliza Marsh, of West Hartlepool. Burial: Stranton Grange Cemetery Hartlepool County Durham, England Plot: 5. Div. B. Uncons. Grave 817.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 10/05/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (2/5 Durham Lt Infantry) Enlistment Date: 25/05/1939

36401 LIEUTENANT COLONEL Awarded CHEVALIER OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD WITH PALM AND CROIX DE GUERRE 1940 WITH PALM 1907-1983 (76 aged) OBE

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 06/06/1939

St Mary’s Hospital

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA)

1561 Lt AA Regt Platoon RASC

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 03/03/1938

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 25/05/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA

(b Ardbeg, Islay 1901; q Glasgow 1925; DSO, OBE), d 13 June 1998. Called up on 1 September 1939, he served with distinction throughout the war reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 1941 he was commanding officer of 174 Field Ambulance, 51st Highland Division, in north Africa, Sicily, and Normandy and later of a casualty clearing station. He was awarded the DSO and OBE and mentioned in dispatches twice. His unit was one of the first to enter Belsen concentration camp at its liberation. In 1956, much to his astonishment, he was promoted to colonel and recalled to duty as commanding officer of a field general hospital in reserve for Suez.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 16/01/1940

Royal Engineers

(113th LAA)

British Red Cross Civilian Relief Team Part of the first group of 6 teams. x5 British Red Cross and Order of St Johns (now St Johns Ambulance) and x1 Friends Relief Service. Arriving night of 21st April, starting 22nd April.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA

Army No: 7382606 Rank: Private Service Trade: Nursing Orderly Unit: 67th British Military Hospital RAMC Call up Date: 7th July 1940 Dispersal Unit 16th May 1946

British Red Cross Relief Team “In the latter year of the war, I was in Germany with the Red Cross Mobile Relief Tam. We were asked by the Army to go to this newly found labour camp, to run it for the surviving inmates. Typhus was rampant and the Belsen Camp had been cleaned and cleared by the Army, now moving on.” Ref. Living in Cirencester. Wilts & Gloucs Standard. 9th April 2017

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

Doctor, RAMC (Father) (Harry please email us with a first name)

113th Light Anti Aircraft The Royal Artillery. 369 Battery. Regimental number 11425219

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 14/11/1940

British NCO served with Royal Army Medical Corps at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 14/02/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

UNRRA. Dietician More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 16/09/1950

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 30/09/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

Lance Bombardier. 1st Class No 1658027. My grandfather died almost 24 years ago, he never really spoke too much about his war time service however, I do know he was in the 113th LAA and I know most of the route he took from D-Day by reading around general histories and some personal accounts.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (Durham LI) Enlistment Date: 15/07/1940

1924-2009

Dr. Medical. Unit unknown More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (Durham LI) Enlistment Date: 07/03/1939

(113th LAA)

No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) More

Engineer and Driver Later racing legend

224 Military Government Detachment Arrived 2pm on 17th April

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 30/09/1940

Piper More

Red Cross attached to the VAD. Voluntary Aid Detachment. 1920–2004 Birth ABT. 1920 Death 21 AUG 2004 • Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 04/07/1939

Grandad George Milner, 1908-1977. Royal Artillery 21st Army Group. 1939-1945. His war ended at Luneburg heath, may 1945, never spoke about what he heard and saw at Belsen.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 29/07/1940

"We got here three weeks after the liberation and there were still bodies littered everywhere. It took six months to bury them all" More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 13/04/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 04/01/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (Durham LI) Enlistment Date: 02/03/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

Corporal. 113th DLI From Plymouth

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 29/07/1940

Corporal Jim Molyneaux, RAF. A nine-man specialist group of commandos to reconnoitre for airfield sites. More

British Army 16th Air Formation Royal Signals Regiment. D Day veteran too. Never spoke about this till recently but traumatised. He was 21.

Australian official war artist, VX93880 Lieutenant (Lt) Alan Moore Lt Moore was briefly attached to the Welsh Guards during his war time service with the Australian Army. Whilst at Belsen, Lt Moore made several paintings, sketches and drawings as a record of Nazi atrocities committed against the inmates. More

44/55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA)

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 14/11/1940

D Company, No.3 Commando More

113th Durham Light Infantry RA 368 Battery Mentioned in Despatches c April 1945 More

Born June 3, 1924 to a family of four that shared a one-room flat in a London tenement, Moren's service, whether to his country, his friends, or his customers, took him much farther. The tumultuous years of World War II set much of life's stage for Moren, who as teenager did night duty as a firewatcher, looking out for enemy bombing raids, atop the roofs of London. During the day, he served as an apprentice to his uncle, who was the maitre d' at the posh Mayfair Hotel. At 18, he was conscripted by the British Territorial Army, trained as a tailgunner for the Royal Armored Corps and sent off to fight the Nazis. The next years brought adventure and triumph for Moren. He landed on the beaches of Normandy, north of American troops, on D-Day, and later was among the first Allied forces to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in Germany. After the Allies' victory, Army officials decided Moren's restaurant experience made him well suited to become a cook for the occupying forces in Germany.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (Durham LI) Enlistment Date: 04/05/1939

(113th LAA)

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 19/04/1938

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 15/07/1940

George Morris, Royal Armoured Corps, was from Bradford, West Yorkshire. He arrived at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 13 days after it had been liberated. More

RAMC Mobile Laboratory. Gave evidence at the Belsen Trial

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 30/09/1940

Gunner John Morris. Despatch rider attached to 113th. There were 70 despatch riders More

1913–1992 I'm doing research of my father-in-law Robert William Morris who I never knew. Robert was born in 1913 and was much older by 23yrd than his 2nd wife my mother-in-law. We don't know much about his time in the army during WW2 has like many he never spoke about it to his family. We thought he was in the tank regiment 39th brigade from badges we have found in an old suitcase. But the mother-in-law told us he was in the intelligence corps. The only thing he said to her was he had at some point met Eva Braun who he described has an evil woman and he was one of the first into Bergen Belsen which he said was an awful experience. Other than that we don't know much about that time. He could speak fluent German, French and Romansh which could explain why he was picked. After the war and following the death of his 1st wife in 1948 he went to Switzerland as a tour guide where many years later he met my mother-in-law who also worked as a guide. Would love to find out more info for my wife if you could point me in the right direction.

Photo More Father Michael Morrison (October 1908, Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, U.K. - April 1973, Dublin, Republic of Ireland was an Irish Jesuit priest. Educated at Sexton St. Christian Brothers, and at the Jesuit Mungret College, Limerick, he trained as a Jesuit Priest in St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Co. Offaly from 1925, and was ordained on July 31, 1939. Arrived on 17th April with the 32nd Casualty Clearing Station (a mini field hospital),

113th Durham Light Infantry RA 370 Battery Mentioned in Despataches c April 1945

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 29/07/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (Durham LI) Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 25/04/1939

Ww2 Belsen was involved in army whichi went in after it was liberated

May 18, 1915 - August 15 3013 Motz was the pastor of Woodland Park Chapel in Portland for 58 years.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 20/09/1940

63 Anti Tank Regiment RA

32nd Casualty Clearing Station

Offered services to D Platoon, 567 RASC, American Field Service

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 30/09/1940

224th Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC More

My uncle John Murray drove a bulldozer burying all those people

My aunt, Sister Marion Murray from Dornoch in the county of Sutherland who served on hospital ships. https://www.belsen.co.uk/sister-marion-murray/

https://www.belsen.co.uk/658-air-observation-post-squadron/

Commanding Officer 369 Battery

75 Anti-tank regiment, Royal Artillery (Please send us some details via email!)

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 18/04/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940