Stanley Levitt – 113th LAA

“My grandad – Stanley Levitt, born and raised in 1 St Hilda Crescent on the Headland.”

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Belsen Online Archive

This archive has been established after my own relative, Reg Price, took part in the liberation and subsequent humanitarian effort of Bergen Belsen in April 1945. Reg produced this famous sign at Belsen. As part of the 113th DLI, Reg and his comrades were at Belsen for 5 weeks and left when the last hut was empty and ceremonially burnt down. This archive compiles all available resources to build a lasting tribute to all the men and women who helped - any unit, any nationality. 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 Nick Price Creatives • Facebook • Twitter •

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Those That Served

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There are currently 32 names in this directory beginning with the letter A.

Abbott, Charles William John

My grandfather, helped to bury the bodies after the camp was liberated year later recognised himself driving a bulldozer during a show showing footage. Sadly gone now and greatly missed

Submitted by: Ron Newman

Abbott, Lawrence (RASC)

RASC from Newbiggin, Penrith

Submitted by: Belsen Archive

Abrahams, Lady

British Red Cross

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Acreman, Stanley

My uncle served in the war. He left at 17 and at 18 helped liberate the Belsen camp. His name is Stanley Acreman. He lived in Somerset and moved to Dursley, Gloucestershire. He was a lovely man. He never spoke about what he saw to anyone. Then in the last years of his life I felt privileged that he shared history with me. It was horrendous what he saw and how he described it. Truly awful. It’s awful to see a grown man cry. I will never forget what he saw and he was such a brave young man. I do not know his regiment nor number. All I know is that he was called up to fight as he had turned 17.

Submitted by: Helen Fursland

Ainsworth, Edgar

Art Editor for Picture Post More

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Alden, Walter
Submitted by: Brian Ward

Alexander, Norrie (British Red Cross)

British nurse with Red Cross attached to 29th British General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945 Audio Recording

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Allan, Allexander (Second Lieutenant) (113 LAA)

Alexander was born in 1910 in Scotland. In 1943, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and joined the 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, The Royal Artillery. Part of the 113 advance recce party landing on Sword Beach, Normandy on June 7, 1944. Interviewed for the Imperial War Museum in 1991.

Submitted by: Belsen Archive

Allen, John (Jack)

Sapper 1930824 Royal Engineers 17th October 1906 - 25th August 1990 Preston Lancashire

Submitted by: Matthew Higham

Allen, Ken (58th LAA)

58th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment More

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Allen, Lewis M (AFS)

American Field Service (ME 32, FCC, CM 97), in a letter to his parents, wrote that the things he witnessed—the overwhelming number of survivors crying out for medical attention, the unsanitary conditions, and the remains of those around the camp who were denied a proper burial—“couldn’t be exaggerated, as they couldn’t possibly be made any more horrible.

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Alsen Lawrence Lt.

Ambrose, Stan

My uncle Stan Ambrose was one the first to step into Belsen, he was in the British army and after the war he hardly said about that sad time.

Submitted by: Alex Abercrombie

Amiss, James

my father told us about after the liberation of Belsen he was there for a while he said they took local people living near by to help bury some of the victims said he helped them off the lorry one woman in a fur coat I saw this photo the museum in Washington and it was just as he described and I am positive it was my dad he was in the pioneer corps name James Amiss have looked for photo can’t find it .

Submitted by: Evelyn Dean

Ancliff, Stanley George (RA poss 113)

1923–2013 Birth 7 JUL 1923 • 95, Southport Road, Plumstead, Kent Death 12 DEC 2013 • Grimsby Hospital, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England He served with the Royal Artillery Regiment and was based in Hameln after WWII ended

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Anderson, Alfred Thomas

My grandfather who served with the Green Howards and was one of the troops who liberated Bergen-Belsen.

Submitted by: Natalie Freeman

Anderson, James Christie Lt. Col.

O.C. Surgical Unit, 29 British General Hospital R.A.M.C More

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Anderson, Ronald

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion

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Anson, Joyce

VAD (Red Cross?) JOyce was from Nottingham

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Apicella, Gennaro (Catering Corps)

I’m trying to find out further information about my father’s part in the liberation of Belsen-Bergen. He was a Company Cook in the Catering Corps and I’m currently trying to get his military records. APV001483605: Gennaro Apicella (Service Number: 14379057) He died in 1973 and 24.2.2024 would have been his 100th birthday.

Submitted by: Tony Apicella

Aplin, Edwin Miller Sqn Ldr. (RCAF)

Royal Canadian Air Force More

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Appleblatt, John Isaac
Submitted by: Mrs Jacqueline Howard

Armatage, Robert

Medical Student (St Mary's)

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Armstrong, Timothy (63rd ATR)

My father Timothy was one of the Argyll and Sutherland soldiers who were transferred to the 63rd Anti Tank Regiment. More

Submitted by: John Armstrong

Ashbury, Marjorie E. (FRS)

Team 100 of the Friends Relief Service More More

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Ashford, Arthur Edwin (RASC 11th Armoured Division)

Armoured brigade RASC company of 11th Armoured Division which was 171st Company. Workshop 83 More

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Ashworth, J (113th LAA)

113th DLI - Probably 369 Battery More

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Aslen, Lawrence (Lt)
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Aspinall, Anthony (Red Cross)

Leader of the British Red Cross team at Belsen

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Aston, Frederick Charles (King’s Own Rifles)

Shortly after Frederick and his regiment were evauated out of North Africa, he was commissioned in his Guards unit, rising quickly through field promotions, to the rank of captain. He was one of he first British officers entering both Bergen Belsen and Dakow concentration camps. These latter experiences may have disturbed Frederick more than he would admit. After the war, he became an alcholic and was able to hide the fact long enough to re-enlist as a comissioned officer with the King's Own Rifles. This regiment was sent to Africa (Kenya) where Frederick's alchoholism became apparant, and he was eventiually asked to resign his commission. This may have prven too much for Frederick, for on returning to England,he took a room in a local boarding house and the, one night, while heavily intoxicated, returned to his room, closed the windows, sealed the door, and turned on a small gas stove and went to sleep - forever. 1912-1952

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Atkinson, Dick (Pvt) (9 DLI)

9 DLI. From South Shields. More

Submitted by: Updated by Paul Errington

Aylin, C V

Captain Aylin was commissioned at Llandudno in 1940 and after coastal defence was posted as the first ALO at RAF Tangmere and flew ops in Bostons and Mitchel aircraft across Germany. As a fluent German linguist, he supported the Rhine Crossing with the 21st Army. He was tasked with setting up a Displaced Persons Camp moving into an abandoned WW1 wooden camp with the help of a Polish Doctor, a Priest and a Jewish interpreter who had survived both Auschwitz and Belsen. Here he set up a medical centre, a chapel, dormitories, a ‘swap’ shop and classrooms for children. When the War ended Captain Aylin who had not seen his family for over three years decided to stay in Germany to carry out his duties, he had been tasked to do by Lt Gen Sir BG Horrocks, KCB, KBE DSO, MC. He continued in the post until he handed over the Camp to refugee agencies and was then demobbed. In 1946, Captain Aylin was appointed Head of Repatriation and Resettlement in the post war Control Commission in Kiel. As a talented artist and outstanding draughtsman, his son Clyde presented his memoirs to the Royal Artillery Museum.

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