Leonard Berney
Leonard Berney | |
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Born | London, England | 11 April 1920
Died | 7 March 2016 | (aged 95)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | ![]() |
Years of service | 1939–1946 |
Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
Commands held | |
Battles/wars | Second World War |
Other work | Company Managing Director |
Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney (11 April 1920 – 7 March 2016) was a British soldier who was the first British officer to liberate Bergen-Belsen.[1][2][3] He also testified in the Belsen trial.[4]
In 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, he published Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney.[5] He attended Brighton College[6] and then St Paul's School, London 1933-38.[7]
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "Major Leonard Berney: First British officer to liberate Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp dies aged 95", The Independent
- ^ "Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney - obituary", The Telegraph
- ^ "Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank", Nanette Blitz Konig, Amsterdam Publishers (2018), ISBN 978-9492371614
- ^ "Major Leonard Berney's son on Belsen concentration camp", The Argus
- ^ Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney, page i., 2015 ISBN 978-1511541701
- ^ "Major Leonard Berney's son on Belsen concentration camp", The Argus
- ^ "Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney - obituary", The Telegraph
Categories:
- 1920 births
- 2016 deaths
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Royal Artillery officers
- Military personnel from London
- People educated at St Paul's School, London
- English memoirists
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- People educated at Brighton College