Framed Portrait Photograph of Bill Ruth. Overall size includ...

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Framed Portrait Photograph of Bill Ruth. Overall size including frame 76cm x 56cm. This is his story: "I was put in the RASC and assigned to 257 Ambulance Car Company, with the job of taking casualties from the field dressing station to the field hospital. At Portsmouth, a docker had offered me his hand and said ‘Good luck son’. I had been in the army only four months and had no idea what to expect. So, it was with both excitement and fear that we landed at Arrowmanches just after 6th June. Sleeping in an open field that night, I reached for my helmet for protection and accidentally felt my mates face. Next morning he told me he was woken in the night by a hand across his face and thought the Germans had come for him! In April of 1945, we’d advanced into Germany and were told to go to a camp. As we approached I could see all these scarecrows. As we got nearer and the stench from the camp hit us, I realised that they were people, just not moving, standing still. The camp was Belsen. We couldn’t give the victims any food, because it would kill them, nor could we go inside the camp because of infection. We weren’t supposed to touch them, but they were so weak that we had to help them into the ambulance. Some were overcome. Some even kissed my feet. I’d witnessed many horrific scenes during the war, but this was unbelievable. How could someone do that to another human being? "

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