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George was a Medic with British Red Cross More

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

Birth: 21 Dec 1907 Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England

RNZAF Squadron Leader 41545. Doug was seconded to the RAF in mid 1942. He subsequently become part of the Allied Forces thrust east into Germany after D Day. He is said to be the first New Zealander to enter Bergen Belsen. He took four photographs of what he saw there. His children grew up understanding what these photos were and what they meant to the free world. More

Adjutant of the 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, The Royal Artillery TA

My late father was a transport driver with the rasc 19.s.t. Coy and according to his records was on regular runs to the POW camp in Baydon for a few years. On the 26 August 1944 his record is marked "embarked for BLA". He was in NWE until 1946. His release paper states he was released in Belgium and it is dated 31 January 1946. The unit number also has 19.S.T. (206) Coy against it. 59 COY GEN TPT RASC

Member of the new 2nd battalion royal Scots Fusiliers Update from family: Kenneth Parker 6th battalion royal Scott’s fusiliers, a Bren gunner, was on the beaches of D-Day and took part in the liberation of Belsen.

55 Trg Regt RA (Searchlight) Enlistment Date: 29/07/1940

My grandfather, Bill Parkinson, was among the British soldiers who went into #BergenBelsen in 1945 More

Initial Team 100 of the Friends Relief Service (Quaker) One of the first civilian teams to enter the concentration camp at Belsen More More

Name: PARRY, LESLIE JOHN Rank: Gunner Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery Unit Text: 368 Bty. 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Infantry) Lt. A.A. Regt. Age: 34 Date of Death: 14/09/1944 Location: Joe's Bridge Service No: 14290685 Additional information: Son of William George and Ellen Georgina Parry; husband of Winifred Catherine Parry, of Camberwell, London. Grave/Memorial Reference: III. A. 19. Cemetery: LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY Gnr Parry was good friend of Frank Moreham and he was killed crossing the bridge next to Frank. His widow Winifred refused to accept news of his death until visited by Frank on Leave who gave her a personal account. Joe's Bridge is the nickname given to Bridge No.9 on the Bocholt-Herentals Canal outside the town of Neerpelt, in the Belgian city of Lommel just south of the Belgian-Dutch border. The bridge was captured by British troops in September 1944, becoming the springboard for the ground offensive of Operation Market-Garden.

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

Medical Student. St Thomas More

530/55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 14/11/1940

VIII Corps, British Second Army More

63rd Anti Tank Regiment (QOOH) Queens Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry Driver and mechanic “there was 'very little chatter' among the British soldiers after Belsen's liberation”

344/55 Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Regt RA Enlistment Date: 02/02/1939

A Coventry nurse who helped to look after survivors at Belsen after their liberation by Allied forces. Mentioned in despatches.

Anti Tank Regt (63rd ?) More

Birth 22 JUN 1922 • Poole Death 24 MAR 2001 • Poole, Dorset, England

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 30/09/1940

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 01/06/1939

RAMC

The Angel of Auschwitz More

My grandad I understand was one of the soldiers that buried the dead there. He caught a disease from doing this and was brought home where he passed away. RIP James Perry.

11th Light Field Ambulance

British Red Cross B. 19.04.1911 D. 14.11.1989

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 15/07/1940

11th Field Ambulance Shot by Focke Wulf fighters at Belsen Died. "One or two were wounded. One who was wounded badly was my mate Frank Phillips. They took him off to 25km from where we were, and he died that day. He had been shot away. He was a D-Day veteran.” FRANK CECIL PHILLIPS Private Service Number: 7405499 Royal Army Medical Corps United Kingdom Died 21 April 1945 23 years old Additional Info Son of Sidney Harold and Millicent Phillips, of Bemerton, Wiltshire. Personal Inscription IN PRECIOUS MEMORY OF OUR DEAR FRANK. HIS MEMORY OUR DEAREST TREASURE More to follow

MBE. Born 6th October 1907 RAMC. Rescued from Dunkirk. Consultant psychiatrist to the British Second Army.

224th Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC More

At Belsen , made an honorary major afterwards. From Leicester originally , think he was in the royal lancs regiment

Medical Research Council More

4th Battalion KSLI.

Driver, 370 Bty, 113 L.A.A. Regt R.A. Date Of Birth: 1916 - Died: 1989

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 16/05/1939

RAMC

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA (TA) Enlistment Date: 30/09/1940

Second-in-command of the 11th (British) Light Field Ambulance

113th Durham Light Infantry. 369 Battery. Army No. 11414961 More

RAMC

Squadron Leader Royal Canadian Air Force Forwarded to 224 Military Government Detachment More

113 DLI LAA PLease drop us an email Mark - liberator@belsen.co.uk with any more details on Walter. It would be great to learn more about him.

55 Searchlight Regt RA: 113th LAA Enlistment Date: 29/07/1940

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