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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. 7,531 total views
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Sergeant Ian James Grant (APFU)
Ian James Grant was born in Edinburgh in 1917 and was called up for military service in 1940, initially spending two and a half years with the Royal Scots as a Lance-Corporal. 8,536 total views
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Harry Oakes (AFPU)
Sgt Harry Oakes, cine cameraman and photographer with No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit, poses with his cine camera for a final picture before leaving the North West European theatre in June 1945. 11,297 total views
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James William Illingworth (113th LAA, RA)
Features in a cine film within the camp, taken on 23rd and 24th April, 1945. 9,160 total views
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Colonel JN Wheatley
I VIVIDLY REMEMBER my reaction when I discovered that my father had worked at Belsen. 8,255 total views
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A Grainy Photo of Grandad
It all started with a grainy photo of my grandad. 9,275 total views
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George Hanks (63 ATR)
GEORGE Hanks was only a teenager when he and his colleagues from the Oxfordshire Yeomanry helped to liberate the notorious Belsen concentration camp, and the horrors he saw have never left him. 9,777 total views
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Ian Forsyth, MBE. Points of Light
Ian Forsyth MBE, aged 96, from Lanarkshire, was one of the first British troops to liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 and has since dedicated his life to helping others through his work as a teacher and wider Holocaust education. 10,189 total views
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Joseph Conerney RAMC
My father Joseph Conerney was born in Co. Galway. As a young man he went to Witham (Essex) to train as a nurse. At the beginning of the war he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in, Holland, Norway and Germany. 8,022 total views
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Brian Villette (113th LAA)
Brian Vaugh Norman Villette – Captain 113th LAA, Royal Artillery. 8,346 total views
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