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404 Company. Royal Army Service Corp.

I am told that my father Captain Francis John Silver entered Belsen at the same time as David Dimbleby.
He would never speak about it as it evoked the memory of the stench that lay over the camp.

He was in the Royal Engineers , but may have been seconded to another unit for that particular operation.

He demobbed in 1949 with the honorary title of Major.

I would love to find out more but sadly, he died in 1967 and I was only 9.

Lance Bombardier - Vehicle Mechanic in 63rd Anti-Tank RA Regiment

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My grandfather Thomas ‘Tommy’ Cordner was a Corporal and I was told of his role in assisting with the liberation of Belsen. Details are scant and his service background doesn’t help as he was in the RAF but deployed in ground troops as a medic from what I am told, landing in Normandy D-day+1.

Pioneer corps

I’ve just come across your wonderful tribute to the liberators. My father, Thomas Grimes, was a dispatch rider in no. 3 Commando. He never talked much about the serious side of the war and NEVER mentioned till much later in his life that he had been involved in “clearing out Belsen at the end of the war”. I could not bring myself to question him due to their horrors of it all. That human beings were capable of such depravity leaves me speechless. Thanks for your work on this website. ED. Thank you. If you have any more details or a photo, please email us.

RHQ 3RTR BLA Trooper WG Shaw was in the third tank to liberate Belsen Email sent, 9th May.

Private. My father told me he was driving either the first or second truck that entered Belsen. More