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Medical Students: St Mary’s Hospital

St Mary’s Hospital, Medical Students.

St marys Belsen medical students

Robert Armatage

Thomas Colin Lyall Brown

John Hankinson
(10th March 1919 – 9th March 2007) John Hankinson, known as ‘Hank’, was a consultant neurosurgeon.
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Thomas Desmond Hawkins
22 May 1923 – 2 January 2015 After the war he undertook specialist training in radiology in Oxford and Manchester, was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1959 and then moved to Addenbrooke’s in 1960. He become a pioneer of interventional neuroradiology and between 1979 and 1984 was the Dean of Cambridge University’s school of clinical medicine.

Peter Derek Campbell Jackson

Gerald Woolf Korn

Andrew B. Matthews
Died 1995

John McLuskie

Alan Vandyke Price
Later married Pamela Vandyke Price.
Alan’s mother was Marjorie Vandyke, daughter of S F Vandyke, manager of the Rembrandt hotel in Knightsbridge. At 18, Alan had been part of a clean-up expedition to Belsen. The couple’s common interests were acting and the theatre, and when Alan did his National Service in the RAF, they lived for a time in South Wales. He had contracted hepatitis from a patient, and never drank, but “he wished us to be known for our entertaining”. A big staff job was coming up and we hoped Alan would get it; if I had a baby a big inheritance would provide for the next generation”. But in 1955, the hepatitis claimed Alan’s life.

Pamela Vandyke Price embarked upon a career of writing about wine at a time when it was still an unusual thing for a woman to do. “She was the first woman to write seriously about wine in Britain [and] did more than most to popularise wine after the Second World War.”

Gordon Caton Thick

Roger W. Watson

John Leslie Clarence Whitcome

UPDATE: With 12 Medical Students from St Mary’s and 12 on this photo – is this the team?
Back row, first left is John Hankinson.

Liberation of Bergen Belsen
John can be seen first on the left

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This archive has been established after my own relative, Reg Price, took part in the liberation and subsequent humanitarian effort of Bergen Belsen in April 1945. Reg produced this famous sign at Belsen. As part of the 113th DLI, Reg and his comrades were at Belsen for 5 weeks and left when the last hut was empty and ceremonially burnt down. This archive compiles all available resources to build a lasting tribute to all the men and women who helped - any unit, any nationality. If you have a relative, or any info, on the relief effort at Belsen, we’d love you to please get in touch. Email us: liberator@belsen.co.ukThank you Nick Price CreativesFacebookTwitter