Channel Islands

The Germans Arrive - Guernsey 1940

The first I remember of the German troops was when I was cutting a hedge with my father along the Bas...

Living under occupation - shoe shortage

People who had children would have known that if they'd evacuated, those shoes would have been no good...

School life under German occupation. Starting school

So after 6 months I think, the letters came round that you had to go along to the parish school, which in...

The Bombing of Guernsey Harbour -Kaye Le Cheminant

When we came out to walk home through ankle deep broken glass and masonry, mother was very distressed to...

School life under German occupation. Back to teaching

My mother was a schoolteacher and prior to the war she taught at St Peters... And she taught in a little...

Souvenir of Liberation and Reunion Card.

As a 10 year-old boy in a mixed class of 40 children at the above school, I was asked by our teacher,...

Living under occupation - HAVING FUN!

The country chapels would welcome you with open arms because remember, there was no television, no cinema,...

The Wrens

I worked for Professor Oliphant, Dr.Boot and Dr.Randall, developing the Magnitron for radar during the...

Living under occupation - treats

Sometimes I used to catch the bus at home, go back to Pleinmont, go all the way to town, and spend some...

Evacuation Decision Changed

One of my elder brothers did evacuate, the next one up from me, and I went to school really excited that...

St Helier

Along with my comrades in the Cheshire Regiment I was waiting to board the last boat to leave Jersey...

School life under German occupation. Schools at Cobo and Albecq

Schools at Cobo and Albecq. Cobo Mission, which is my church, was used for school during the week....

School life imder German occupation - learning German 2

I don't know whether it was to try and inject some enthusiasm into the thing, but I've still got...

Living under occupation - shortages

We don't make candles in Guernsey, not then at least, so we had to mark candles - just enough to get to...

Missed the Boat - Missed Evacuation

She was evacuated with the school, plus my aunt and her three children... My uncle was also left without...

School life under German occupation. Shrapnel injuries

We all ran inside and sat down and the person next to me, who happened to be my friend Ernest de Garis...

Refugee from Jersey

Our father was at Dunkirk and mother did not have any information or know where he was, so decided to bring...

Occupation after D-day — Shortage of food

They tried and make salt, you know, get brine, we used to go and fetch a ration of brine, and that's my...

living under occupation - Children's games

Boys play soldiers, we played German soldiers. People perhaps don't think this, but the only soldiers...

The Germans Arrive - Guernsey 1940. Corrugated Iron Planes

The Germans Arrive - Guernsey 1940. The Germans arrived by air, with those 3-engined Junkers 52s....

School life under German occupation - not learning German well

I remember a German coming into the classroom, and the only German I can remember now is the fact that I...

The Germans Arrive - Guernsey 1940. Germans in Town

The Germans Arrive - Guernsey 1940. Life went on, we went to town, we did our shopping, the Germans were...

Anticipation of Evacuation

I was only eight, eight-and-a-half when the war began, so my memories started really with the evacuation,...

Living under occupation - strange foods

I remember eating all sorts of funny things, carrot pudding, drinking blackberry leaf tea, I used to go and...

Why We Stayed

My parents had elected to stay, my father was a tomato grower and it was of course the middle of a crop,...

Occupied Jersey

I was fourteen years old and i remember going to a Miss Frazer in Philip street in St Helier to get a...