The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Welcome this new archive relating and dedicated to the men and women service personnel and the part they played at the Liberation and subsequent Humanitarian Effort of the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp.
UPDATE: 15th April, 2025. 80th Anniversary.
Thank you to everyone for submitting a name/details to coincide with the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen Belsen – we’ll go through all your submissions, moderate and add them on. If you have a photo or any more details please email us. Thank you.
liberator@belsen.co.uk

We are now inviting any relatives of service personnel who may have been at the camp to get in touch. Any regiment, service, nationality, volunteer or any snippet of information – we would like to hear from you. We do not believe there are any records of the diverse group of men and women, many completely untrained, who were involved with the camp, after it’s liberation.

Those That Served

Bulldozer Driver Wrinn

Stills from cine film dated 19th April. Wrinn from Hoddington, Scotland, drives the bulldozer. Wrinn is visibly distressed as the Read more

Children’s Swings and Playtime at Belsen

The 113th Durham Light Infantry built swings for the children at Bergen Belsen. Here the unit can be seen pushing Read more

George Wilbert Thompson

George Wilbert Thompson (seen here on left of photo). Read more

Hugh J Campbell (Lt.)

I have a photo of my father there. His platoon was the unit that found the place. He was a Read more

Eric Wilfred Taylor

When British soldiers entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp they were confronted with the horror that the Nazi retreat had left Read more

Major Harold Daintree Johnson, 224 Parachute Field Ambulance

On 15 April 1945 224 Parachute Field Ambulance was the first medical team that went into Bergen-Belsen. Below is the Read more

Medical Students: St Thomas’

Medical Students: St Thomas’   Edmond Arthur Douglas Boyd (Eddie Boyd) More... Alan David Rowan MacAuslan 1921 – 25 May Read more

First in - 63rd Anti Tank Regt.

A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry). The unit were ‘first in’ Belsen. 15th Read more

Albert “Paddy” Sutton - RAF

A photo album from an Irish second World War veteran who was present at the Liberation of Belsen concentration camp Read more

Victor Long (1SAS)

Those horrific images were seen at first hand by 82-year-old Victor Long, of Essex, a former SAS member who was Read more

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This site will progress and I’d encourage anyone with any info to get in touch. My granddad, Reg Price served with the 113th Durham Light Infantry*, as part of 369 Battery. As a signwriter, he produced this sign…

And this was kept in the family for years – so for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Belsen in 2020, subsequent VE Day and VJ Day, I thought it’s about time I’d try to find out more about Reg – his comrades (many of which are names, simply written on the back of photos), what they did together and for a way to remember them all, properly.
Read here about The Heroes of Belsen.

*Just 113th Durham Light Infantry? No we are interested in all Service and Medical personnel who took part during the humanitarian effort at Belsen Concentration Camp. Their roles and names are largely forgotten, as many were too horrified to ever speak of what they had to do, so this archive seeks to form a tribute to ALL those that were there, to find out more and to remember them.
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.uk – Thank you

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UPDATE: 2025. Apologies for the ridiculous amount of Google adverts within the site. We are looking into changing this, to a more appropriate level. That said, the adverts do generate income to keep this site going.

The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Any 113th Durham Light Infantry friends or family are encouraged to get in touch via 113th@belsen.co.uk

** In 1938 the old 5th Battalion DLI changed its role to Searchlights and then in 1940 to Anti-Aircraft. This 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment went to Normandy in June 1944 and joined the advance into Germany in early 1945.
Official designation – Brigade: 100 AA • Division: 30 Corps. • Unit: 113 LAA Regt. RA (DLI) TA.

The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp
Names of British soldiers who liberated Belsen

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