The first British officer to liberate the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp has died.
Lt Col Leonard Berney passed away on the Caribbean island of St Vincent. The 95-year-old suffered a heart attack on Monday.
His son said he was "a very kind, generous and highly intelligent man; and he lived a full and remarkable life."
He spent the past six years sailing the globe living onboard the luxury residential ship, The World.
Leonard Berney went into the Bergen-Belsen camp on 15 April 1945. The images he saw that day haunted him into old age.
In an interview with Sky News last year, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation, Lt Col Berney said he had no idea what he was going to see.
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