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Bergen Belsen Memorial
Despite the annual britishness tweets of the liberation of Belsen, there is no memorial at the site for all the nationalities who went to help. 3,562 total views
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Stanley Levitt – 113th LAA
“My grandad – Stanley Levitt, born and raised in 1 St Hilda Crescent on the Headland.” 18,468 total views
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William Stanley Webb – Royal Artillery (113th?)
My granddad, William Stanley Webb. He served in ww2 for 5 years. 19,899 total views
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Liberation Day
Despite the camp being entered first on Sunday 15 April 1945, by eight men of the 6th SAS and then 1–3000 men of 11 and 29 Armoured Brigade, these troops stayed no more than a few hours and moved out to continue the war. 17,934 total views
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John Goff Kilner (Medical Student)
Middlesex Hospital 19,333 total views
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Charles Kyndt – Medical Student
Charles Kyndt – medical student at Belsen. The London Hospital 19,049 total views
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Bedford QLB
The 113th LAA can be seen here on the VE Day Parade. We asked various forums to confirm the vehicles. 22,917 total views
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Albert Norman Turner (Tom)
Here is a picture of my late father Albert Norman Turner (Tom) 59 Mechanical Equipment platoon sitting right to one of Reg Price’s painted signs. 19,524 total views
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Brigadier Robert Daniell
Having smashed through Belsen’s gates and the first building he came to, scattering guards in all directions, Daniell found a trench 150 yards long filled with naked bodies; he then broke down the door of the camp hospital, in which 90 per cent of the patients were dead. 20,760 total views
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RAF at Belsen – Football!
A couple of weeks or so after the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp, we had occasion to go into the camp — I don’t remember why. 20,642 total views
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Norman Turgel (53 FSS)
Norman Turgel, a soldier in the British Army, met the woman whom he immediately knew he would marry. Just days later, they were engaged. (53 Field Security section of British Intelligence Corps) 25,664 total views
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