The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Welcome this new archive relating and dedicated to the men and women service personnel and the part they played at the Liberation and subsequent Humanitarian Effort of the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp.
UPDATE:
Thank you to everyone who submitted a name/details to coincide with the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen Belsen – we’ll go through all your submissions, moderate and add them on. If you have a photo or any more details please email us. Thank you.

We are now inviting any relatives of service personnel who may have been at the camp to get in touch. Any regiment, service, nationality, volunteer or any snippet of information – we would like to hear from you. We do not believe there are any records of the diverse group of men and women, many completely untrained, who were involved with the camp, after it’s liberation.

Those That Served

Bergen Belsen Memorial

Despite the annual britishness tweets of the liberation of Belsen, there is no memorial at the site for all the Read more

George Albert Buckfield

I am writing to ask if I would please be able to add my dad, George Albert Buckfield to the Read more

Ian Forsyth and Julien Wieciech

As a young soldier in April 1945, Ian Forsyth faced the gates of Belsen concentration camp from the confines of Read more

Marie Brown

Marie was born in Chorley in Lancashire in 1923. Her father was the manager of a cotton factory, but during Read more

Duncan Campbell

Duncan is standing, second from left. Back of the photo says, “The Belsen Gang, Calais 45” Secomnf photo: Duncan's on Read more

Report on Nursing Matters August 1945

Dr. T.V. Layton SMO and Miss K. Doherty Matron, arrived at Belsen Camp from London on 11/7/45, having reported at Read more

Canadians at Belsen

We’d love to hear from anyone with details of any service personnel from Canada serving in UK units or within Read more

Acton Henry Gordon Gibbon (Spud)

Spud Gibbon was the son of a colonel in the royal army medical corp who was from Sleedagh near Murrintown Read more

Mada Clare - Nurse (QAIMNS)

Mada Clare was born in Acle in June 1923 and was one of 11 brothers and sisters. In 1932 she Read more

Laurence Wand - Medical Student (St. Barts)

“You see, there was a war still being fought...There was a CCS, there was 32 CCS, there was an anti-aircraft Read more

Edmond Boyd - Medical Student

At 23, Edmond Boyd was a privileged, upper-class Cambridge medical student who wanted to be a journalist, but was encouraged Read more

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This site will progress and I’d encourage anyone with any info to get in touch. My granddad, Reg Price served with the 113th Durham Light Infantry*, as part of 369 Battery. As a signwriter, he produced this sign…

And this was kept in the family for years – so for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Belsen in 2020, subsequent VE Day and VJ Day, I thought it’s about time I’d try to find out more about Reg – his comrades (many of which are names, simply written on the back of photos), what they did together and for a way to remember them all, properly.

To coinicide with the anniversary, I was able to be filmed both on national and local BBC TV to tell Reg’s Story.
Whilst this was totally out of my comfort zone and I dreaded every moment – I decided I needed to do something to start this all off. BBC Midlands Today aired 7th May and a VE Day Antiques Roadshow Special aired Sunday 10th May.

Read here about The Heroes of Belsen.

The main photo, shown here was coloured for the 75th Anniversary and we’ll tell you all about it shortly – and what happened next!

*Just 113th Durham Light Infantry? No we are interested in all Service and Medical personnel who took part during the humanitarian effort at Belsen Concentration Camp. Their roles and names are largely forgotten, as many were too horrified to ever speak of what they had to do, so this archive seeks to form a tribute to ALL those that were there, to find out more and to remember them.
If you have a relative, or any info, on the relief effort at Belsen, we’d love you to please get in touch. Email us: liberator@belsen.co.uk – Thank you

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The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Any 113th Durham Light Infantry friends or family are encouraged to get in touch via 113th@belsen.co.uk

** In 1938 the old 5th Battalion DLI changed its role to Searchlights and then in 1940 to Anti-Aircraft. This 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment went to Normandy in June 1944 and joined the advance into Germany in early 1945.
Official designation – Brigade: 100 AA • Division: 30 Corps. • Unit: 113 LAA Regt. RA (DLI) TA.

The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp
Names of British soldiers who liberated Belsen

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