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George Edward Packman – British Red Cross
British Red Cross. 11,067 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. 9,021 total views
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Marsh – 63rd Anti Tank Regt
A series of photos labelled A J Marsh, 63rd Anti Tank Regt. 10,042 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. 8,808 total views
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Fraser Eadie (Lt Col)
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 11,735 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. 10,853 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. 8,491 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. 8,628 total views
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Friends Relief Service
Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, relief workers and medical staff entered the camp to provide emergency support. In this blog, Education Officer Jenny Carson looks at the reflections and memories of those who made up the Friends Relief Service. 9,619 total views
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Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Paybody
For nothing could have prepared them as they liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. 10,144 total views
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