Not many daffodils this year? Was listening to Gilbert King, a gunner with 249 (Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Battery RA, whose unit was the first to enter Bergen-Belsen on this day in 1945. Can’t imagine what he saw – I went there in 1984 when it was a different place altogether. My Dad was there in 1947 when he was posted to a former SS Panzer Barracks in Munsterlager. He just shook his head when I mentioned I’d been there during my time at the Bergen-Hohne Training Area.
Not many daffodils this year? Was listening to Gilbert King, a gunner with 249 (Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Battery RA, whose unit was the first to enter Bergen-Belsen on this day in 1945. Can’t imagine what he saw – I went there in 1984 when it was a different place altogether. My Dad was there in 1947 when he was posted to a former SS Panzer Barracks in Munsterlager. He just shook his head when I mentioned I’d been there during my time at the Bergen-Hohne Training Area.
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JH: Ta, Steve.