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Group photograph of the ninety seven British medical students from St Mary's Hospital Medical School who participated in relief work at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Brigadier H L Glyn-Hughes, Director of Medical Services 2nd Army, is seated centre.(IWM Caption)

Comment: There were 96 British medical students from 8 London teaching hospitals (St Mary’s was just one of them). (When this photograph was taken not all of them were present as some had fallen ill)….many thanks to Rowan MacAuslan for correcting this information


Dated: 1945
Source: Imperial War Museum (HU 59497)

If you wish to refer to this image in any correspondence please use Reference Number: 1022