Dr Robina Marwick - RAMC Remembrance Day 11 November 2025 marked 80 years since VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) on 8 May and VJ Day (Victory in Japan Day) on 15 August. It therefore feels timely to tell the story of Orkney born woman doctor, Dr Robina (Rina) Marwick, one of the first doctors to enter the Belsen Concentration Camp. Dr Marwick joined the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) in 1943 and was stationed in Leeds, Aldershot and Hastings. She crossed to Normandy in July 1944, a month after the D-Day landings. Stationed in a hospital in Antwerp she was in charge of the Resuscitation Ward. There she tended severely wounded patients, giving them transfusions and other treatments to enable them to be fit enough for further operations.[1] Dr Marwick - Resuscitation Ward On 1 January 1945 she tells in her own words how they all rushed outside as “at breakfast time we heard a lot of planes flying over quite low. We all went outside to see them and give the...