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Wilfred Evans (113 LAA)
1909–1999 8,383 total views
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Major Jos Mark
From his teens until his death last week at the age of 95, Jos Mark was committed to his country and to those who gave their lives to protect it. 17,813 total views
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Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes – RAMC
Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MC, MRCS (25 July 1892 – 24 November 1973). British military officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later medical administrator, educationalist and sports administrator. Hughes served in both the First and Second World War and is notable for his role in the care and rehabilitation of the victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 10,139 total views
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Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers
Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers is best remembered for the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, which earned her worldwide recognition. 7,497 total views
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Sarah Eckstein (Grebenau) Jewish Relief Unit
Sarah was born in 1916, the second child of Hanoch and Helen (Sokolower) Eckstein of Warsaw, Poland. With her older brother, Morris (Moshe Zvi), the family moved to North London shortly after the end of the first World War. 8,146 total views
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Chaim Herzog
A talented athlete, Herzog (Sept. 17, 1918–April 17, 1997) was a junior bantamweight boxing champion in his native Ireland. 9,587 total views
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Aubrey Milstein – Royal Engineers
GERMANY: Dozens of elderly former British soldiers marched into the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for one last time yesterday for a tearful reunion with the prisoners they freed 60 years ago. 9,148 total views
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Matthew Westwell – Army Catering Corp
Corporal Matthew Westwell, a butcher by trade, served in the Army Catering Corps formed in March 1941. 8,616 total views
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Daniel Cummings (Padre)
In 1922 Belfast-born Dan Cummings left home three days after his 15th birthday to begin a Juniorate at a Redemptorist College in Limerick. 9,217 total views
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Pte S C Hurkett
Pte S C Hurkett was born in Minster, in the Isle of Sheppey. Enlisted/Conscripted 4 April 1940 to 6 DTC RASC (Herne Bay Kent) Posted to 59th Division Supply Column Qualified as butcher 301 Infantry Brigade Coy RASC, designation changed from Driver to Private Posted to 155 Details Issue Depot (DID) on 25 May 1943 based at Llandough Castle, Glamorgan, Wales 19 June 1943 Physical Training Instructor course returned to 155 DID As part of Airborne Corp 155 DID “enplaned 20th September 1944” – flying from Cottesmore 26th September as part of Airborne Forward Delivery Airfield(AFDAG) – including 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Battery flew in 209 Dakotas, escorted by 182 fighters of AFDG and…
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