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 Bergen-Belsen (), or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in Northern Germany, northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen, Lower Saxony, Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, ...

. He also testified in the

Belsen trial The Belsen trials were a series of several trials that the Allied occupation forces conducted against former officials and functionaries of Nazi Germany after the end of World War II. British Army and civilian personnel ran the trials and staff ...

. In 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, he published the

memoir A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autob ...

''Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp – A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney.'' He attended

Brighton College Brighton College is a fee-charging, co-educational, boarding and day public school for boys and girls aged 3 to 18 in Brighton and Hove, England. The school has three sites: Brighton College (the senior school, ages 11 to 18), Brighton Co ...

and then

St Paul's School, London St Paul's School is a Selective school, selective Private schools in the United Kingdom, independent day school (with limited boarding school, boarding) for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre site by Rive ...

1933–38."Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney - obituary"
''The Telegraph''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berney, Leonard 1920 births 2016 deaths 21st-century English memoirists British Army personnel of World War II Royal Artillery officers Military personnel from London People educated at St Paul's School, London Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Belsen_trial People educated at Brighton College