Richard Carr-Gomm
Person Male Born 2/2/1922 Died 27/10/2008
Army officer and charity founder. Born Richard Culling Carr-Gomm at Mancetter Lodge, Mancetter, near Atherstone, He.served in the army from 1939 to 1955, and was amongst the first troops to enter the Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. In 1954, he was deeply affected by evangelist Billy Graham's crusade in London and moved to a bedsit in the deprived area of Bermondsey. He founded the Abbeyfield and Carr-Gomm Societies, providing care and housing for disadvantaged and lonely people. Died in Batheaston, Somerset.
Presumably related to Hubert but we can't find the connection.
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