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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. 9,588 total views
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Medical Students: St Thomas’
Medical Students: St Thomas’ 10,273 total views
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First in – 63rd Anti Tank Regt.
A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry). 11,323 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. 10,881 total views
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Victor Long (1SAS)
Those horrific images were seen at first hand by 82-year-old Victor Long, of Essex, a former SAS member who was one of the first British soldiers to enter the camp 60 years ago on Friday. These memories stay with you, you can never forget. 11,789 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. 9,817 total views
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Alan Frickers. Pioneer Corps
As requested, few details about my Father. 9,626 total views
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Arnold R. Horwell (102 Control Section)
My father, Dr Arnold Horwell (Horwitz),who has died at the age of 92, was born in Berlin; his father, Hugo, was the director of the state spirits monopoly. 12,014 total views
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Burning the Huts
Stills from this British Pathe film show a number of personnel gathered to see the huts at Bergen Belsen burnt down. 10,011 total views
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Cine Film at Belsen
The liberation of Bergen Belsen was one of the most photographed, documented and filmed events of the war. 9,699 total views
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