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Royal Canadian Air Force More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 16/09/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 24/02/1939

RCAMC Canadian

Friends Relief Unit

Devonshire Regiment

RAMC Lt. 1945 Mentioned in dispatches. The first British medical officer to enter Belsen. Won the Militray Medal in First World War on active service. Medically trained at St Barts, qualifying in 1925. Killed in a car accident January 22, 1956, Cooksbridge near Lewes. He was 53.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 21/02/1939

REME More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 03/05/1939

WCIT. War Crimes Unit. Arrived 20th May. Produced initial report 22nd June. 14 page document summarised investigators key findings and made recommendations for the cases against key concentration camp personnel. More

Queen Alexandra\'s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 00/01/1900

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 02/05/1939

In 1945 he became the Daily Express's "War Correspondent Cartoonist" with the 2nd Army. At one point during World War II he was assigned as War Correspondent to the Coldstream Guards unit which liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Giles interviewed the camp commandant, Josef Kramer. More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 09/03/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 00/01/1900

Apparently, my grandfather trained in the REME but transferred to the 4th Royal Tank Regiment, fought on Gold Beach, Normandy, then the Battle of Falaise Gap, through to the Battle of the Bulge, then Operation Plunder in the Rhine and then Belsen.

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. More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA

Royal Artillery More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 26/04/1939

Deputy Director of Medical Services for the British Second Army More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 31/01/1916

(113th LAA)

RAMC

Miss Muriel Gofton, Cala Sona Enterprise, Netherton. Miss Gofton, who was one of the first women to enter Belsen after the liberation and has done a remarkable work amongst refugees. 24 April 1959 - Wishaw Press - Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland

First Canadian Army. Mobile shower and laundry unit. More

Rabbi Goldfinger. French Army. Part of an open-air service at the festival of Shavuot on 18 or 19 May with Hardman

Nurse. Died and buried at Belsen. Aged 21.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 10/02/1939

Lieutenant Colonel 11 Field Ambulance

1909-1999

5th Infantry Regiment

BBC Radio reporter. BOOK: The Lid Lifts: Patrick Gordon Walker, 1945 1st; Radio reporter Walker writes of his 2 trips to Germany to record victory; he arrived at Belsen 5 days after it was liberated, interviewing men of the Ox and Bucks who took the camp; camp inmates and a female guard; Later MP

Unit unknown

Corporal. 113th DLI From Barnsley

RAMC More

(3 June 1924 – 26 March 2013) Educated at Winchester College, Gow was commissioned into the Scots Guards during World War II. He was one of the first British officers into Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. He became Commanding Officer of 2nd Bn Scots Guards in 1964 and Commander of 4th Guards Brigade in 1967 before becoming a Brigadier on the General Staff of Headquarters British Army of the Rhine in 1971.

Volunteer Medical Student. More More

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 04/02/1936

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 25/07/1939

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 14/02/1939

Name: GRANT, ALBERT ERNEST Rank: Gunner Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery Unit Text: 370 Bty., 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Infantry) Lt. A.A. Regt. Age: 21 Date of Death: 03/07/1944 Service No: 11429818 Additional information: Son of James and Mary Ann Grant; husband of Edith Ellen Grant, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Grave/Memorial Reference: V. G. 6. Cemetery: ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 18/07/1939

224th Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC More

John Willoughby Gray Reported first recce on April 15th, 1945 with Hughes. Phantom patrol officer with 11th Armoured Division "Phantom" John Gray - Phantom

Soundman No.1 camp on 23rd & 24th April, along with cameraman Paul Wyand

B Sqr, 23rd Hussars April 15th (War Diary) At 08.00 hours. 23rd Hussar Group moved through Winsen, turning north, "B" Squadron leading. Some Bazooka and machine gun opposition was met north of Winsen in 4758, but this rapidly cleared and the enemy dispersed by setting fire to the wood. North of Walle, 4862 there were notices in English declaring the Belsen area to be typhus infected and to be a Neutral Zone. This was observed without incident and we passed the camp at great speed, little knowing what horrors it concealed. At about 14.00 hours "A" Squadron Group which had moved via 5186, passed through "B" Squadron Group which had established itself in Bergen, 5070 without incident. 1/100,000 Sheet M4. "Two or three days later we were halted and informed that there was a 24 hour truce and we had to remain where we were. I later learned that a camp full of Jewish prisoners was nearby. This was the notorious camp called Belsen. We were actually the first tank to reach the white ribbon that stretched across the road. Somehow I thought this was a ruse and it allowed many high ranking officers to escape. On passing through the village I often wondered how the villagers could deny knowledge of its presence. I could see and smell the emaciated prisoners clinging to the wire fence as we passed through."​

Jewish Relief Unit More

Wiltshires. though the actual day in april the wiltshires arrived is not clear. that said he was de-mobbed at hohne barracks in november 1945. he must have been there in the early days of liberation as when we went to belsen in 1982 he recalled the layout of the camp clearly, the head of the camp, kramer, being led out under close guard and the local population of belsen town being forced to visit the camp - they did so in their sunday best clothes! they were forced to see at first hand what belsen was and still denied any knowledge. he also described the torching of the wooden huts by 5th wilts owing to typhus. he had a walking stick carved there by a german nco for a packet of cigarettes - it details all the main 4th batt. wiltshires battles and ends "belsen horror camp 1945. it is now in the wardrobe museum in the belsen display; one of two carved at that time.

113th Durham Light Infantry RA 370 Battery

British Red Cross

Pathologist from 32CSS. In charge of the Human Laundry.

CO, 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory More

Mobile Field Hospital More

113th Durham Light Infantry RA 368 Battery