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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. 3,560 total views
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George Edward Packman – British Red Cross
British Red Cross. 20,948 total views
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Eric Trott – RAMC
Social worker Andy Strowman would like the council to honour this ‘humble, kind and gentle man’ with a memorial plaque in Edward Street where he lived. 15,214 total views
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James Norman Matthews
James Norman Matthews – some photographs sent back to home while he was stationed abroad i.e. France, Antwerp Oct 1944, Brunswick West Germany Aug 1945. Assisted the liberation of Belsen POW camp. He was entitled to wear two cap badges – Royal Honourable Artillery. 16,647 total views
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William Aubrey Southwood
William Aubrey Southwood. 1st December 1919 – 20th June 2007. Army No. 3966329 14,959 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – Motherwell Times
Motherwell and Wishaw ‘s MP had her own thoughts as she signed a book of commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day. 17,593 total views
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Thomas Gibson – Medical Student
During early April a notice appeared in the Medical Schools of the London hospitals asking for twelve volunteers from each to make up a party of a hundred students, whose object would be to treat starvation cases in Holland under the auspices of the Red Cross. 20,447 total views
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Charles Hall 113th DLI
When Charles Hall was told his unit would be travelling behind enemy lines to take charge of a Nazi concentration camp, he could hardly have imagined the horrors he was about to encounter. Paul Willis, Northen Echo, meets a man who helped liberate Belsen. 22,197 total views
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William Atheral George Shepheard III
Army Medical Corps. 17,603 total views
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113th LAA – Photos (Boyes)
A series of photos from a member of the 113th LAA – Royal Artillery. 16,050 total views
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113th LAA – Vehicle Identifications
Fabulous detective work over on the WW2 Talk Forum with regards to the 113th LAA vehicles to enable postive identification of other vehicles – 162. 16,832 total views
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