Name Directory
Those That Served
There are currently 68 names in this directory beginning with the letter C.
Cameron, Ross K (Chaplain) RCAF
Cameron, Ross K (Chaplain)
RCAF. Royal Canadian Air Force
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCameron, Thomas Gordon
B. April 30th 1918.
(Earlier) 11th Light Field Ambulance.
Army Blood Transfusion Unit
Work for 2 months at Belsen
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCampbell-Jackson, Peter Derek (Medical Student)
St Mary’s
b. 6th Oct 1922 d. 12th Dec 1974
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCampbell, Hugh J (Lt)
Canadian. I have a photo of my father there. His platoon was the unit that found the place. He was a combat veteran but he once said to me of all the torments his mind kept reminding him of this was the most vivid. He never got over it.
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Submitted by: Rod CampbellCarr, Maurice E (AFS)
Born in Salem, Oct. 31, 1924, he was the son of Maurice E. and Gertrude (Crane) Carr. He was a graduate of St. John's Preparatory School.
Mr Carr was an ambulance driver for the American Field Service with Britain's 8th army in Italy and in Germany with its 2nd army. He was in the first allied medical team to evacuate prisoners from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 during World War I
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCave, Ray (113 LAA)
A Lineman in the 370th battery, 113th DLI
Service No. 14291548
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveChapman, Charles (Major) (58th LAA Regt RA)
58th LAA Regt RA
My grandfather was Major Charles Chapman.
He only spoke of his experience just before he died. He was 44 years old when he crossed over to France
58th LAA Regt RA were at Belsen April 16
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveChapman, Frank (Sapper)
“The young soldier on the dozer was Frank Chapman 21 years old. He had to do this terrible job I met him at the 50 years commemoration at Bergen Belsen in 1995.” - Hetty Verolme
Submitted by: ArchiveCharters, Cyril John (RAOC 37 Kinema Section)
Letter dated 15th May, 1945
“The full story of Belsen has yet to be written, but when the day dawns of its publication this most brutal, inhuman and ghastly Hell on earth will be revealed to the whole world.......I do not believe in gloating and publishing the sins of another whether that be a man or a nation, but this is a crime of which the whole world should know....”
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveClare, Mada (Nee Laight) QAIMNS Nurse
Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS)
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Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveClarkson, Bayard (AFS)
C Platoon 567 Coy AFS
(American Field Service)
Bayard D. Clarkson [CM 90, D Platoon, 485 Company (Coy)] also participated in the evacuation and cleanup of the camp. Clarkson carried many survivors in his arms and brought them to an area where they could be stripped of their uniforms, wrapped in blankets, and deloused by German nurses.
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveClyne, E A (Sgt)
14 Amplifier Unit.
Use of loud-speaker to restore order in the camp; organisation of inmates for first distribution of food in the camp; arrest of collaborators from among inmates of the camp; organisation of an interpreters pool from among inmates of the camp, the marshalling of the first 3,000 “healthy” women evacuated from the camp to the Panzer Training School (in cooperation with 250 Mil. Gov. Det.); allotting of evacuated people to new quarters, carried out by Sgt E. A. Clyne of 14 Amplifier Unit (in co-operation with 904 Mil. Gov. Det.)
Marked on IWM photos as Clynne from Hampstead
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCoe, Ronald Albert
(No 1442868, 205/89th AA Regiment, No 7 section Mideast Forces. The issue is that he died in the 70's so not much info is left. He did however tell a story of being at Bergen-Belsen. He was an artist and was commissioned to document the camp along with alot of other officers from the British army etc. He told a story of meeting Kramer and painting his portrait for later exhibitions. The painting was lost after the war when my Nan and Pop took it to an exhibition and it was gone when they went to collect it. On the off chance anyone has ever heard of a painting of Kramer with the Signature at the bottom showing as CAP, I think I would believe in miracles, but is worth a try.
Submitted by: Adam LintonCoigley, Michael Harold Farnham (Medical Student)
Medical Student. St Thomas
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveColclough, Freddie (32 CSS)
32 CSS
Caught Typhus at Belsen and suffered very badly. Evacuated to England and died from the disease.
Registered Deaths:
x1 d. 1945, Birmingham (Born 1921) Frederick H
x1 d. 1946 Wirral, Cheshire (Born 1902) Frederick C
x1 d. 1946, Stoke on Trent (Born 1874 - so can probably discard this reference) Frederick
NO records later than 1946.
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveColes, Herbert Miles
Birth 25 NOV 1907 • Bristol. England.
Death 20 FEB 1975 • 41 Dormer Road, Bristol. England
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCook, Arthur Thompson (Later Maj. Gen.) (Medical Student)
Medical Student. St Thomas
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCoombs, Peter
"The fact is that all these were once clean-living and sane and certainly not the type to do harm to the Nazis. They are Jews and are dying now at the rate of three hundred a day. They must die and nothing can save them - their end is inescapable, they are too far gone now to be brought back to life. I saw their corpses lying near their hovels, for they crawl or totter out into the sunlight to die. I watched them make their last feeble journeys, and even as I watched they died." Peter Coombs, British soldier, May 4, 1945 letter to his wife after liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Submitted by: ArchiveCopeland, Mary (Sister)
described how she was ‘now running a building with 180 patients who are being looked after by ten German orderlies, three German sisters and two German doctors, and I might add it is not an unpleasant position to be in, that of supervising doctors, and telling them what to do, quite apart from them being Germans’.
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCostigan, Patrick Gerald (Captain)
Medical Officer, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion
Arrived Belsen on 15th April.
Stayed for 2 days.
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCotton, Miss
Miss Cotton was in the first British Red Cross Unit which worked in Belsen after the liberation.
22 September 1954 - Shields Daily News
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCourt, Maurice
Possibly Courts, from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire
Details to follow...
Submitted by: Kath Sansom Cree, Malcolm Henry
Born Dundee 1910.
Royal Horse Artillery
One of the first British doctors to enter Beslen.
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCreelman, Lyle
Canadian
Ms. Creelman was sent first to England and a year later to Germany as Chief Nurse of the British Occupied Zone. She was in charge of nursing at Bergen-Belsen after the British liberated the concentration camp.
(REF. Direct quote)
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCrosbie, John (Jack) Lt. 113th LAA
Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery 113th DLI, LAA
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Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCrowley, Cornelius
I had an Uncle who was in the Paras and was one of the first Catholic chaplains who was part of the liberation of the camp. I have a photo of him in uniform.
His name was Fr Cornelius Crowley,a Passionist priest.
He never mentioned anything about his experiences and I only heard about him being in Belsen after his death.
He was in Norway too and took part in a parachute jumps in Norway....
As a result of these ,he arranged for a German POW ' for a dog ,a German shepherd,be sent back to us in Ireland. So,we grew up with that dog,named Hasso. .
Submitted by: Lucy McCarthyCumberford, John Lauder
In 1939, John joined the Canadian Army as a private and went overseas for the duration of WWII. He landed on Juno Beach on D-Day, celebrated the liberation of Holland in Os and witnessed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. He received a Commission with the British Army and finished the war as a Captain. John remained in the army and retired as a Lt. Colonel in 1970, the commanding officer of CFB Cobourg.
Passed away in March 2014 in his 96th year after a hard-fought battle against old age. John was predeceased in 2012 by his much loved wife of 67 years, Elizabeth,
Submitted by: Belsen ArchiveCupples, Alex
Pipe Major of the 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
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