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Liberation Day
Despite the camp being entered first on Sunday 15 April 1945, by eight men of the 6th SAS and then 1–3000 men of 11 and 29 Armoured Brigade, these troops stayed no more than a few hours and moved out to continue the war. 17,596 total views
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Bedford QLB
The 113th LAA can be seen here on the VE Day Parade. We asked various forums to confirm the vehicles. 22,347 total views
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Charles Kyndt – Medical Student
Charles Kyndt – medical student at Belsen. The London Hospital 18,597 total views
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Brigadier Robert Daniell
Having smashed through Belsen’s gates and the first building he came to, scattering guards in all directions, Daniell found a trench 150 yards long filled with naked bodies; he then broke down the door of the camp hospital, in which 90 per cent of the patients were dead. 20,329 total views
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Albert Norman Turner (Tom)
Here is a picture of my late father Albert Norman Turner (Tom) 59 Mechanical Equipment platoon sitting right to one of Reg Price’s painted signs. 19,121 total views
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RAF at Belsen – Football!
A couple of weeks or so after the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp, we had occasion to go into the camp — I don’t remember why. 20,250 total views
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Norman Turgel (53 FSS)
Norman Turgel, a soldier in the British Army, met the woman whom he immediately knew he would marry. Just days later, they were engaged. (53 Field Security section of British Intelligence Corps) 25,184 total views
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Guy’s Hospital Medical Students
Guy’s Hospital medical students. 19,072 total views
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Michael Frey
My grandfather, Michael Frey (1922-2006), fled from Vienna in 1938 to British Mandatory Palestine where he joined the British Army and became a part of what would soon turn into the Jewish Brigade Group, which in turn became a part of the 8th Army in 1944. 18,399 total views
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370 Battery – 113th LAA
Fabulous photos and details featuring the 370 Battery of the 113th LAA, Durham Light Infantry. 18,974 total views
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