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Col Gillies – Royal Engineers
My dad Coll Gillies Royal Engineers was one of the first into Belsen he never talked much about it he was 22 at the time. 18,235 total views
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Molly Silva Jones – British Red Cross
The human laundry. ‘Going into that place, who could forget it?’ wrote Molly Sylva* Jones of the Red Cross. 17,189 total views
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Harry Morgan RAMC
Harry Morgan, seen here with wife Margaret (nee Walker). 16,536 total views
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Ian Whimster – Medical Student
Ian Wesley Whimster MRCPath was a reader of dermatology histopathology at St Thomas Hospital, London. 15,615 total views
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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 an army tank as allied troops prepared to liberate it and for the first time in his life he understood what he was actually fighting for. 16,209 total views
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Marie Brown
Marie was born in Chorley in Lancashire in 1923. Her father was the manager of a cotton factory, but during the Great Recession, the factory closed down and the family were plunged into poverty with no social welfare safety net. 15,845 total views
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Tom Scholes (58th LAA)
Tom Scholes was called up for 6 months in the First Militia, aged 21, on 17 July 1939. Those 6 months lasted some six and half years! 18,062 total views
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Desmond Hawkins (Medical Student)
Desmond Hawkins’ early medical career was heavily affected by the Second World War. As a student he was involved in the early treatment of casualties from the Normandy landings and later he was in one of the first medical teams to enter the Belsen concentration camp after its liberation. 16,363 total views
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Derrick A Sington – 14 Amplifier Unit
On 15 April at the request of GSO, 11 Armoured Division, 14 Amplifier Unit joined 23 Hussars and accompanied them into the “neutral zone” of Belsen Concentration Camp. 17,369 total views
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63rd ATR – C Troop
Group photo of 63rd Anti Tank Regt. C Troop. 20,022 total views
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