Leonard Webb

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Leonard Webb (born April 1921) is a British World War Two veteran who was present at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

The driver to Brigadier H. L. Glyn-Hughes, the Deputy Director of Medical Services for the British Second Army, who was in charge of relief operations in Bergen-Belsen. Webb witnessed some of the horrors of which the Holocaust is remembered for. The relief work he and his staff faced was a monumental task of feeding tens of thousands of former prisoners, reducing the mortality rate and preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Burying the bodies became an overwhelming task. The British forced SS guards to remove and inter the corpses in mass graves, but soon bulldozers were used to complete the task.

Later on in his life he was also the mayor of Thame.

He currently lives in Thame in retirement.