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Just started to try and find out more about my father who was in 113th LAA. I think 370 bty. His name was Sidney Salt and I think he was listed as a mechanic on the transport. Definately went to Belsen and also Bad Pyrmont where we have visited and stayed in actual guest house he was billeted in

369 Battery, 113 Durham Light Infantry Mentioned in Despatches c April 10, 1945 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030022185 (Incl Photo of 369 Battery) Birth: 23 Nov 1914 Death: May 1998 Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England

Number 32 Casualty Clearing Station OR No 11 Field Ambulance Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QA)

My dad John Mackay Sangster was a member of 141 RAC the Buffs flame thrower tank regiment. He was in Belsen at the liberation and then another two years until 1947. He never spoke about it but I have some momentos of his time there. One of the prisoners there made him a wooden cigarette box that is a prized possession of mine. Another item is the telegram sent to him in Belsen that he had become a dad with my big brother being born.

Rev. Dr. Louis Morris Sanker (born in 1909) ministered to Bristol Hebrew Congregation. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 1 September 1944 and was appointed on 17 November the Senior Jewish Chaplain to the 2nd Tactical Airforce Rear in the rank of Squadron Leader. Sanker arrived in Belsen some ten days after its liberation and spent a week there. He arranged for Air Force units to contribute everything they could spare to alleviate the suffering there, and vast quantities of food and supplies were donated. One Royal Air Force Reserve squadron went on biscuits for two days to allow the white bread to go to Belsen. Sanker took Hardman to a Royal Canadian Air Force unit, and after Hardman had talked with their officers the medical officer ransacked his whole medical room and the officers contributed and sent in truckloads of food and medical supplies

Royal Engineers MC Number180626

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

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

Royal Army Medical Corps between 1941 and 1946. He was one of the first medical officers to be allowed into Belsen concentration camp after its liberation. His shocking accounts of the atrocities there were too horrific to record, although he maintained some diaries which he later destroyed. On demobilisation, he started his anaesthetic career by being appointed the first resident anaesthetist to Manchester Royal Infirmary. Registrar and senior registrar appointments followed. In 1950 he was appointed to the South Manchester Group of Hospitals and set about forming a department of anaesthesia which ultimately became the university department of anaesthesia. “Uncle Jack,” as he was affectionately known by his colleagues, retired in 1981.

An Officer selected Tom and 3 others to follow him with their trucks that towed water carriers. They had no idea where they were going but, eventually, they arrived at Belsen Concentration Camp. The visit lasted about 4 hours, during which time all they could do was leave some water at the Medical Core. More

From Workington

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 06/03/1939

224th Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC More

Volunteed for ATS in February 1944 and served initially in Italy.

(113th LAA)

First in: SAS More More

A member of the 11th Armoured Division

11th Armoured Division Thank you - please email us with more info. liberator@belsen.co.uk We'd love a photo too.

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

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

113th Durham LAA 368 Battery 143090

Royal engineers attached to a tank regiment, combat engineer.

1910–1976 Birth 18 OCT 1910 • Kingsley, Staffordshire Death 12 DEC 1976 • Fenham Newcastle upon Tyne Served at Tobruk and Bergen-Belsen

Believed to be part of the RAMC that first went into Belsen (Admin: Thank you Nigel. Do you have any more information? Please email us liberator@belsen.co.uk)

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

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

Army Medical Corps More

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

113th Light A A Unit.

American Field Service

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

She joined up with the ATS when 17 but had a number of roles when in Germany I think including nursing. More

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

As a quarry owner, he was experienced in driving bulldozers, and excavators - so was used in that capacity.

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

University College London

My gran said he was there as a reason why he didn\'t like the TV program 'World at War'. He wouldn't talk about his service, burned his uniform and gave away his medals. He was probably a corporal in the army but my gran said he was a serjeant. I do not even know his regiment but have seen others in the Burton-upon-Trent area that confirmed what my gran said and why he wouldn't talk about it.

My father, Evan Simpson (1919 - 2020) was a British Commando who was part of the liberation of Bergen Belsen.

British NCO served with 146th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps and 30th British General Hospital in GB and Iceland, 1939-1942; served with 32nd Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps in GB and North West Europe, 1942-1945 Audio Recording via IWM

1908 - 1964 (Aged 55) "Commandant at Belsen" Ref at Belsen by 18th June, 45

A great man who Liberated Bergen Belsen in the great war .A great man my hero my grandad x

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

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

C/O 14 Amplifier Unit More

32nd Casualty Clearing Division More

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

Name: SKINNER, HAROLD Rank: Gunner Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery Unit Text: 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Inf.) Lt. A.A. Regt. Age: 22 Date of Death: 07/07/1944 Service No: 1780611 Additional information: Son of William Thomas Skinner and Emily Winifred Skinner, of Brockenhurst, Hampshire. Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 2. Cemetery: SECQUEVILLE-EN-BESSIN WAR CEMETERY

225 Company Pioneer Corp 21 Army Group and was moved to 71 Company Pioneer Corp, then 229 Detachment Military Government. 6 sections of the company were moved to Belsen in May 1945. Christopher was then part of the British Army of the Rhine and part of the 618 Military Government ‘R’ Detachment. Christopher was at Belsen until around June 1946, and was awarded a papal medal by the Vatical Mission at Belsen in March1946. While at Belsen he met Marlene Dietrich in relation to Marlene’s sister Elizabeth.

(113th LAA)

Arrived 27th April. Heading up a Scratch Team of researchers for War Crimes. No. 1 War Crimes Investigation Team. (WCIT)

‘Before we entered the camp I had never heard of Bergen-Belsen. I knew nothing of what had been going on. We heard about atrocities, which are bantered backwards and forwards, but we didn’t realise really what it was, and then it was just after that, that all the rest of it came about, other camps just like Belsen. 'But to me the name Belsen after that was shocking. I didn’t see anything of the inmates in the prison really. I saw a few, possibly the remainders of those that were fit enough to be put into a hospital – but I didn’t see many of the actual people. They had been taken away, or the remains of them. That was awful... There’s no doubt that after seeing something like what had gone on in Belsen, it does stay in your mind and never goes away.’

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 02/03/1939

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

249 63rd ATR More

From Sheffield

3rd division dispatch driver. Drove a high ranking official into the camp to be signed over to the British. He rode his motorcycle with the official in a side car, passing the armed SS guards who were leaving the camp. The two were on their own travelling in without any protection. What he saw in that camp haunted him until the day he died aged 94.

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

Before qualifying, he joined a group of final year medical students working in relief work at Belsen just after the liberation of the camp. This affected him deeply and he remained reticent on the subject.

Trooper

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

113th Durham Light Infantry RA 370 Battery

RASC

249 Battery 6rd Anti Tank Regiment

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 18/05/1939

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

I believe my grandfather, Thomas (Tommy) Solan was part of the liberation of Belsen. His war record is classified and we have submitted an official request to obtain it. I was told by my grandmother that he was there but as yet unverified. Both sadly passed away while I was quite young. Thank you - please email us with more info. liberator@belsen.co.uk We'd love a photo too.

63rd Wessex Regt. Recce Corps Royal Armoured Corp More

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 10/04/1939

26-year-old commander of Squadron 437 More

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

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

(113th LAA)

Medical Student. St Thomas.

Bryce enlisted as Medical Orderly, served in various regiments, ending the war as M.O. Belsen after the concentration camp was liberated. 1916–2004 Birth 19 AUG 1916 • Manchester, Lancashire, England Death 15 OCT 2004 • Poole Hospital, Dorset, England

Major. MBE 14 December 1910 to 30 May 2011 Beginning his career as an editor, Stewart worked on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and The Spy In Black (1939). During the war he filmed the real life horrors of a liberated Belsen, and later produced films for Norman Wisdom, Morecambe and Wise and the Children’s Film Foundation.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 22/11/1938

More Doctor 32 Casualty Clearing Station

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

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

11th Armoured Division More

11th Armoured Division, Royal Army Service Corps

Featured on film “Reverend T.J. Stretch, attached as padre to the formation concerning this camp. My home is at Fishguard. My parish is at Holy Trinity Church Aberystwyth.” More

(113th LAA)

1917–2002 Birth 1917 • Croydon, Surrey Death JUN 2002 • Worthing, West Sussex, England More

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

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

Gunner RA. Served 1938- 1945..present at liberation of Bergen Belsen ...Never spoke about his experiences

Gunner RA. Served 1938- 1945..present at liberation of Bergen Belsen ...Never spoke about his experiences Home, Brandon, County Durham (Possible 113th LAA - being in County Durham)

Born 25 Feb, 1912 Lived Leamington Spa

(113th LAA) Possibly Antony Douglas b: 15 Dec 1918 Petersfield, Hampshire

Rabbi Dr. Arthur Saul Super, a Chaplain with the British army, was present at the liberation of Belsen. (He was my late wife’s uncle). Photo

Served as an orderly in a field hospital or other medical facility at or shortly after the liberation of Belsen. Thank you for the details. Please email us at liberator@belsen.co.uk with any more information. A photo always helps too. We have lots of photos with unknown service personnel.

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My grandfather Edwin Oliver Sutton was born in Hankow, China (a district of Wuhan) in 1902. He was a Methodist minister and served as a chaplain in the British Army in the second world war. He joined the newly formed 11th Armoured Division – known as the ‘Black Bull’ – under Field Marshal Montgomery, and he was one of the first Allied soldiers to participate in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 75 years ago today. Apparently, one of his main tasks was assisting with burying the bodies and helping to mark the graves of those who died in that camp. More

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

REME

Rev Father Edmund Swift, SJ, Roman Catholic Chaplain to 81 British General Hospital. “On the first day of their gruesome task of burying the corpses, a party of the Wehrmacht [German] soldiers broke down completely. Having deposited about two dozen bodies in the grave, a corporal ripped off his Iron Cross and stamped it in the ground. The rest of the company followed suit and tore off their badges and decorations in sheer disgust.”

Head of the Nutrition Section, Health Division, UNRRA Visited the camp shortly after liberation

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