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Medical Student. The Middlesex Hospital

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

Troop Sgt. 249 Battery. 63rd Anti-Tank Regt. Photo More

Brigade Sargeant Major (not initials) (113th LAA)

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 26/01/1939

My Dad was a cook attached to the Royal Engineers he had been with then since the planning for the Pluto fuel line at the Isle of Wight then Normandy France Belgium Holland Germany (Belsen) although little did he talk about his experiences he did say how they had to dilute soup so the prisoners could tolerate it as it had been so long since they had anything at all and any food was impossible for them it was doing more harm than good. My Dad was TPW(Tom) REECE 410099 army catering corps. Before the war he was in the Shropshire Yeomanry and a baker in civilian life, that's how he came to be in the catering corps, he didn't have an option.

Royal Engineers More

He enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1940, saw service in Africa, and was one of the first to enter Belsen concentration camp after liberation by the Allies.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 00/01/1900

Royal Canadian Air Force More

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

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

Medical Student. St Thomas More

Service Number 4535197 (Lance Bombardier) Died 29/07/1944 Aged 33 370 Bty., 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Infantry) Lt. A.A. Regt. Royal Artillery RIP

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No 1 Troop Command.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 30/09/1930

(113th LAA)

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 15/04/1940

174 Battery, 58th Light Anti-Aircraft More More v2 first in account Coventry Telegraph More details to follow

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

RAMC

1516030 My grandfather was with 113 LAA - Sergeant Arthur Roberts 1516030. It was his second time in Europe having narrowly escaped with the BEF at Dunkirk. Arthur returned to England after the war and had a successful career finding oil in the North Sea for BP

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

My grandad was Joseph Roberts and was part of the medical Corp who went into Belsen April 1945 after its liberation. He never talked about it . My mam has all has papers .

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (Durham LI) Enlistment Date: 26/04/1939

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 07/02/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 15/12/1941

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 09/02/1939

George Rodger (19 March 1908 – 24 July 1995) was a British photojournalist noted for his work in photographing the mass deaths at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the Second World War. More

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

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

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 01/11/1939

My father was there he was Clifford Roe from West Hartlepool. (Thanks Maureen - please send us an email with more details)

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

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

John Rollinson who served in WW2 as a cook with the Army Catering Corps, army no. 7600895. In 1945 he was attached to 91 Reception Camp in Amersham, catering for injured repatriated POWs. We know from John's personal testimony when he was alive that he was one of a number of army cooks sent to Bergen-Belsen on the camp's liberation to feed the prisoners. However, there is no reference to this on his records (Army form B103 etc.), presumably as it was a secret operation (?).

RAMC. Evacuated from Dunkirk, was at the seige of Tobruk and was sent to the liberation of Belsen.

Josef Rosensaft (January 15, 1911 – September 11, 1975) was a Holocaust survivor who led the community of Jewish displaced persons (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) through the establishment of a Central Committee of Liberated Jews that first served the interests of the refugees in Bergen-Belsen DP camp and then DP camps throughout the entire British sector.

Lance bombardier 249 battery

113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Inf.) Lt. A.A. Regt. Royal Artillery (Gunner) Killed: 20th July 1944. Age 37 HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY 2. E. 2 Son of Henry and Ellen Rowbotham; husband of Margaret Ann Rowbotham, of Bradford, Manchester. RIP

Medical Student

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 28/04/1939

British Red Cross

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

1923–2006 Royal Army Service Corps More

113 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

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