WRonald Eric Citrine, 3rd Baron Citrine of Wembley, was one of the Westminster Hospital medical students who assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. In 1955, he registered as a medical practitioner in New Zealand and lived at Paihia.
WDaniel Oliver Davies (FRCGP), also known as Dan Davies, was a British general practitioner who co-founded a health centre in Whitstable, established a general practitioner course in Canterbury, was secretary of the East Kent Division of the British Medical Association and served with the Zambia Flying Doctor Service. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student.
WMichael Gwynne Douglas Davys, was a British psychiatrist in Harrow on the Hill, who specialised in depression in children. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student.
WKenneth Robertson Dempster ,also known as Claude Dempster, was a British pathologist at the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, who in 1945, while studying at St Thomas' Hospital, assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when he volunteered as a medical student.
WKenneth Charles Easton, was a general practitioner, who in 1945 while studying medicine at Westminster Hospital, assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. His career later was focussed around the development of prehospital care and emergency medicine.
WDennis Henry Forsdick, was a British physician at the Friarsgate Medical Centre. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student.
WSir James Learmonth Gowans was a British physician and immunologist. In 1945 while studying medicine at King's College Hospital, he assisted at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student.
WMichael John Hargrave was a British general practitioner in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, who in 1945 assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when he volunteered as a medical student from Westminster Hospital at the age of 21.
WThomas Desmond Hawkins, known as Desmond Hawkins, was the dean of Cambridge University’s school of clinical medicine between 1979 and 1984, and a pioneer of interventional neuroradiology. While studying medicine at St. Mary's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student.
WJohn Langford Hayward, was a British breast surgeon who researched treatment for advanced breast cancer. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. He graduated in 1947.
WDavid Sells Hurwood was a British general practitioner in Syston and founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. Here, he developed tuberculosis.
WJohn Spencer Jones, was a British chest physician. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. Here, he developed tuberculosis. He later authored a number of articles in medical journals including "Telling the right patient" in the British Medical Journal (1981), where he reported that 50% of people with terminal disease, "want to know that this is so".
WThis is a list of London medical students who assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation at the end of the Second World War. There were 96 in total. Most of the students were in their penultimate year of medical education and were recruited from nine medical schools in London.
WIn early April 1945, the British Red Cross and the War Office, at the request of the British Army, called for 100 volunteer medical students from nine London teaching hospitals to assist in feeding starving Dutch children who had been liberated from German occupation by advancing Allied forces. However, in the meantime, British troops had liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the students were diverted there on the day they were due to travel to the Netherlands. The students had previously spent most of the Second World War at school and in medical training.
WAndrew Edward Bertie Matthews, was one of the St Mary's medical students who volunteered to assist at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
WIan Wesley Whimster MRCPath was a reader of dermatology histopathology at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He gained international recognition for his study of comparative anatomy and experiments with reptiles, particularly observing their colour patterns in relation to their nerve supply. He was part of the medical student team that went into Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, after it was liberated by British troops. On return, he made numerous contributions to dermatology, including the definition of keratoacanthoma, the distinction between pemphigus and pemphigoid and descriptions of melanocytes and malignant melanoma. He died in a road traffic accident at the age of 55.
WSidney Clifford Brookfield Yorke (1922-2007), was a British Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital who in 1945 while studying medicine at King's College Hospital, assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. He took over from Anna Freud at the Hamstead Clinic.