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  • Hugh J Campbell (Lt.)

    I have a photo of my father there. His platoon was the unit that found the place. He was a combat veteran but he once said to me of all the torments his mind kept reminding him of this was the most vivid. He never got over it.  23,812 total views

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  • Major Harold Daintree Johnson, 224 Parachute Field Ambulance

    On 15 April 1945 224 Parachute Field Ambulance was the first medical team that went into Bergen-Belsen. Below is the army description of the situation found, in efficient military language, taken from the archives of 224th Parachute Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.  23,829 total views

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  • Albert “Paddy” Sutton – RAF

    A photo album from an Irish second World War veteran who was present at the Liberation of Belsen concentration camp has been made public for the first time.  24,445 total views

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  • Walter Gallant

    Was at the Liberation of Belsen. No unit info known.  22,453 total views

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  • Medical Students: St Thomas’

    Medical Students: St Thomas’  23,227 total views

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  • George Wilbert Thompson

    George Wilbert Thompson (seen here on left of photo).  19,337 total views

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  • Children’s Swings and Playtime at Belsen

    The 113th Durham Light Infantry built swings for the children at Bergen Belsen.  23,855 total views

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    Eric Wilfred Taylor

    When British soldiers entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp they were confronted with the horror that the Nazi retreat had left behind.  11,752 total views

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    Gilbert King, 249 Battery (Oxford Yeomanry) RA

    There were tears as the Jewish men and women once held at the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany met Gilbert King, 96, who is one of only three former soldiers still alive of those who took the camp for the Allies in April 1945.  21,493 total views

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  • Alan Frickers. Pioneer Corps

    As requested, few details about my Father.  21,848 total views

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