One of the first Drs in to Bergen Belsen concentration camp

<p dir="ltr">The contributor's father, Captain Godfrey Malcolm "Mac" Baker, in the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps), despatched to Bergen Belsen to help with the evacuation of the prisoners. The family had a lot of photos that as children the contributor looked at (piles of bodies) but his Dad was very reticent. Mac contracted Typhus as a result of his work at the camp and was very ill. The certificate is a mention in despatches received for extracting a round from a colleague's shoulder - the story is that this was a live round. The text reads: "By the KING'S Order the name of Captain G.M.Baker, Royal Army Medical Corps, was published in the London Gazette on 18 October 1945, as mentioned in a Despatch for distinguished service. I am charged to record His Majesty's high appreciation. J.J. Lawson Secretary of State for War."</p><p>Mac met his wife in about 1940, at medical school. Dorothy Joan Mary Baker nee Readman continued her studies during the War before becoming a GP. She was fire-watching on the roof of the medical school at the University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Once she had to throw from the roof incendiary devices that had been dropped. </p><p>Mac's father-in-law was called Edgar Platt Readman, he served in the First World War, and as a reservist in the Second World War he was Major General, CBE, in charge of Chillwell logistics headquarters, Nottingham. </p>