Leonard Berney
- March 7, 2016
- 95 years
- heart attack
About Leonard Berney
Leonard Berney was a notable figure. Berney died in 2016 at the age of 95.
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Full Biography
|Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney (11 April 1920 – 7 March 2016) was a British soldier who was one of the first British officers at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. He also testified in the Belsen trial.
In 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, he published the memoir Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp – A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney. He attended Brighton College and then St Paul's School, London 1933–38.
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- "Major Leonard Berney: First British officer to liberate Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp dies aged 95"independent.co.uk
- "Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney - obituary"telegraph.co.uk
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