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James Kitchener Heath
Adrian Andrews, who lives in Bishop’s Stortford with wife Gunta and their two children, has written a book, A Pithead Polar Bear, about his grandfather’s Second Word War service, including the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 18,651 total views
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Eric Stringer
Eric E. Stringer 1917–2002 16,056 total views
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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. 20,146 total views
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‘Dick’ Everett Jenkins – Medical Student
In April 1945, just before the Second World War ended, nearly 100 medical students from across London volunteered to support the British army. In this group, there were students from St Mary’s Medical School and Westminster Medical School, two of the schools that formed Imperial College School of Medicine. 75 years on, we want to share their stories and celebrate their courage. 17,473 total views
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Jonah Jones – 224 Parachute Field Ambulance
My father, the artist Jonah Jones (1919-2004), was effectively a lifelong pacifist. As with many things, including religion, he was a doubter, but he never quite renounced his principles, for he hated war, having witnessed its dreadful depredations. 16,938 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. 18,002 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. 18,896 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. 17,503 total views
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Mike Courtenay
Born 14 March 1923; died 25 June 2018 ‘Has anyone got a case?’ 18,129 total views
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Harry Morgan RAMC
Harry Morgan, seen here with wife Margaret (nee Walker). 17,992 total views
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