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The first in…
On April 15, 1945, Lieutenant John Randall, then a 24-year-old SAS officer, was on a reconnaissance mission in northern Germany. 10,395 total views
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Ron Westbury
This is a photo of my dear old dad shortly before he passed at the grand age of 91. 8,083 total views
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George Edward Packman – British Red Cross
British Red Cross. 9,219 total views
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John Morris (113th LAA) Despatch Rider
My grand father, gunner John Morris was present at the Liberation. He was a dispatch rider in the Royal Artillery attached to a Light Anti Aircraft regiment. 7,983 total views
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Marsh – 63rd Anti Tank Regt
A series of photos labelled A J Marsh, 63rd Anti Tank Regt. 8,794 total views
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Harry Skeggs – 32 CSS
The funeral of Harry Skeggs, a committed and engaged member of St Catherine’s congregation for over sixty years, took place at Chelmsford Crematorium on Wednesday 10th May 2017. Below is an edited version of the tribute and address given at that service. 7,514 total views
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Fraser Eadie (Lt Col)
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 10,508 total views
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Norman J. Gallagher (RCAF Chaplain)
Norman Joseph Gallagher, son of James Gallagher and Marion McPhee, was born in Coatbridge, Scotland in the Archdiocese of Glasgow on 24 May 1917. 9,716 total views
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Clement Edwards
As a newly qualified doctor, Edwards was attached to an 11th Light Field Ambulance (LFA) unit which landed on Sword Beach soon after D-Day; he and his colleagues then joined the Guards Armoured Division as it advanced through France and Belgium to northern Germany. 7,368 total views
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Joyce Parkinson. (FRS)
Of lasting influence on my aunt Joyce Parkinson, who has died aged 94, was the time she spent in Germany at the end of the second world war, initially with a Quaker relief team, which was one of the first civilian teams to enter the concentration camp at Belsen. Their job was to clothe, register and begin to rehabilitate survivors. 7,918 total views
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