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. 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 and then St Paul's School, London 1933-38. External links Facebook Page References 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