Remembering Auschwitz: A special Old British News item: 80 Years Since Liberation here on this page Sunday Express – Sunday 28 January 1945 At murder camp RUSSIAN troops have reached Auschwitz, one of the most notorious German concentration camps, 32 miles west of Cracow, admitted Colonel von Hammer, German radio […]
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Yorkshire Evening Post – Monday 31 May 1915 YORKSHIREMEN’S EXPERIENCES AT THE FRONT. HUSSARS IN THE TRENCHES. THE CONTENTS OF A SOLDIER’S PACK. The Yorkshire Hussars, made up of troopers from all parts of the West Riding, took part in severe fighting in France on Whit-Sunday and Monday. Trooper George […]