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I'm not sure if anyone can help me. I'm trying to find out more about my Grandad and his war time service. When I was much younger and learning about World War 2 at school, I'm afraid to say I did badger him about his time in the war. He told me he would talk about his experience of Belsen once and never again. he told me he was part of the group of soldiers who liberated the camp and that it was like Hell, people dead or dying and hardly recognisable as human beings, he said that they tried to help and as they were starving gave the prisoners their rations, he said, we killed more people, we didn't know that our rations were too rich for their stomachs. This has stayed with me for over 40 years now and I think about this exchange often and wished I'd asked more questions, even though he made it clear the subject wasn't up for discussion again! The reason for the resurgence of interest is threefold, firstly we are due to visit Auschwitz over the next week, although not the same, still an important place to visit, secondly and the reason for the visit is our son has recently studied further in History at school and has an interest, along with reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in English lessons, in learning more and thirdly as part of his GCSE course in RS has to prepare a project, he is intending to research all of my Grandads medals and why he received them. My mother is of an age that although she's always been interested in what her Father did in the war has not had the opportunity to research, I'd like her to know more before she exits stage left and I feel like it's left to me to share his story and know more. Any pointers you can give me would be most welcome, I do have his record card but it's very vague. His name was William Henry Day born in Bradford. I'm also sending over a couple of photos we have in case they are of interest. My Grandad is the one writing at the desk!