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, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentrati ...

. He also testified in the Belsen trial. In 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, he published ''Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney.'' He attended

Brighton College Brighton College is an independent, co-educational boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3 to 18 in Brighton, England. The school has three sites: Brighton College (the senior school, ages 11 to 18); Brighton College Preparatory Sc ...

and then

St Paul's School, London (''By Faith and By Learning'') , established = , closed = , type = Independent school Public school , religion = Church of England , president = , he ...

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

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