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Planning Field Hospitals. Awarded MBE for war services.

76 Field Hygiene Section RAMC More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 10/02/1939

113th Durham https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80030463

Known as George 370 Bty, 113th L.A.A. Regt RA More

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

Liberator

Private walker

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

Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU)

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

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

Participated in the Normandy landings. He was ordered to Belsen concentration camp the day after its liberation to assess the medical needs of the inmates; in his memoirs he describes how the army authorities did not believe his estimates of the scale of human tragedy revealed. Because of his linguistic skills he was left in administrative charge of 13 German military hospitals and a large civilian hospital.

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

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

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

(113th LAA)

Durham 113th RA

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

11th British Light Field Ambulance regiment 1914-2009

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

Helped liberate Bergen-Belsen.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 08/02/1937

(Earlier) 8th Army Western Desert Blood Transfusion Unit Among the firts medical staff at Belsen. Awarded CBE in 1972. Later Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Great Ormond Street

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

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

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

RAMC

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

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

GHQ phantom 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.

1 SAS. Two jeeps arrived about 3pm on Sunday the 15th of April 1945. with John Randall. (The SAS left shortly after with the exception of Weaver who stayed on as a translator for the 63rd C.O) More

Royal Artillery (poss 113th) Badly wounded 4th November 1944. More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 31/10/1939

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

14th Light Field Ambulance, RAMC He was sent to France with the B.E.F. At Dunkirk they drew lots which let him try to get back to England. He was lifted off the mole by an almost new Destroyer with only one set of rear guns and two sets of torpedo tubes believed to be HMS Harvester. The unit was then sent to North Africa, Syria(attached to Australians), back to north Africa. For a time he was an orderly in an American Field Service ambulance. These were volunteer American drivers and dodge ambulances supplied by the American Red Cross. After North Africa he was in Italy before returning to the UK for the Normandy landings. From then on to Belgium, Holland and Germany. He did not often talk of his experiences. Once he said that after large tank battle the M.O. was with them and if the casualty was beyond help they would be given an excess of morphine. He was also at Bergen-Belsen a few days after it was liberated and said if you were not there in person you would not be able to take it all in. All the years I knew him he never used the word ambulance it was always a Blood Wagon. After the war he worked at Betteshanger Colliery in Kent as a male nurse

K.S.L.I.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 08/06/1939

Medical Student Guy's Hospital.

He was in one of the first tanks to liberate Belsen concentration camp. When I was in my 20's when he opened up one afternoon and told me everything he witnessed there. More

Corporal Matthew Westwell, a butcher by trade, served in the Army Catering Corps formed in March 1941. He was also in the Royal Berkshire Regiment and the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - He was at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp after it was liberated by the 11th Amoured Division (Great Britain). More

94th (Dorset & Hants) Field Regiment R.A More

UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) More

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

Royal Engineer (59 Plant Troop) 866 Mechanical Equipment More

Medical Student. St Thomas Contracted Typhus at Belsen. More

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

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

(113th LAA)

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 06/09/1940

Canadian Reporter from Montreal. Arrived 23rd April. Reported to Radio Luxembourg More

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

(113th LAA)

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

368 Battery. Battery Sargeant Major

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

(Medical) Awarded the Military Cross. One of the first doctors to enter Belsen.

RAMC https://www.belsen.co.uk/sir-william-melville-arnott/

Known as Eddie 32nd Casualty Clearing Station Photo

Team 100 of the Friends Relief Service More FRS

(113th LAA)

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

113th Durham Light Infantry RA 368 Battery 172842 Awarded CHEVALIER OF THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD II WITH PALM AND CROIX DE GUERRE 1940 WITH PALM

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 16/05/1939

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

American Field Service

Lt Alan Wilson of Glasgow. British Army Film & Photographic Unit photographers More

Private in the Royal Pioneer Corps

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

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (2/5 Durham Lt Infantry) Enlistment Date: 18/05/1939

(113th LAA)

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

224th Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC More

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

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA

Bombardier 1597191 113th DLI KIA. 16 August 1944. Aged 30. BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY VI. D. 23.

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

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

Arrived 17th April. The Anaesthetist More to follow...

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

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

‘9’ TROOP 174 Battery 58th L.A.A More

Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad 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 (TA) Enlistment Date: 29/07/1940

Private served as dental technician with Army Dental Corps, No 32 Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps 32nd Casualty Clearing Station "Outside the huts were piles and piles of dead bodies. Many of the soldiers who first entered the camp were desperate to try and alleviate the prisoners' starvation by giving them army rations. This first intake of food was fatal for many prisoners, who were too weak to digest it.”

(113th LAA) Possibly Frederick Charles b: 1916 Kent

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

Medical Student (Westminster) More

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

1914–1975 Birth 6 JUN 1914 • Hemswell, Lincolnshire, England Death 28 FEB 1975 • Hemswell, Lincolnshire, England

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

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

From Hoddington, Scotland Bulldozer driver 19th April More

Filmed No.1 camp on 23rd & 24th April, along with soundman Martin Gray

We believe Cyril Wyatt of Royal Tank Regiment 11th Armoured Division was among those who liberated Belsen. He spoke very little about his war except to briefly speak of the horrors of Belsen. He was at many major battles including El Alamein and landed on Juno beach on D Day plus 7. The division then pushed through Normandy, the Falaise gap and the Ardennes. We would be grateful for any information about the division.

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. Awarded MBE