Channel Islands

Living with the Germans - Sunday afternoons

Every Saturday I used to walk along the road to my aunts, and the Germans … used to wave and that...

School life under German occupation. School at Kingsley House

School life under German occupation. I started off school at a private school, at Kingsley House at the top...

School life under German occupation. Sandwich Lunch

I used to have to take my sandwich, because the first thing the Germans did is buy up everything in the...

School life under German occupation. Smoking accident

School life under German occupation. My schooling had a bit of a hiccup because from an early age I took to...

The Bombing of St Peter Port Harbour 1940 - Hiding from the Planes

My first recollection of the war was the air raid in May 1940 when I was 3 years old, and I remember...

Bombing on Guernsey 1

This picture was taken on Thursday June 28th 1940 after the Germans had bombed White Rock in Guernsey....

Bombing on Guernsey 2

This picture was taken on Thursday June 28th 1940 just after the Germans had bombed the weighbridge at...

School life under German occupation. School at the Vale Chapel

School at the Vale Chapel. We were in the Vale Chapel Schoolroom, next to the Vale School itself....

Curfew

I remember coming home from a dance with my sister, two German officers approached us and one of them...

Occupied House

I was evacuated from Guernsey to England with my parents, we had to abandon our lovely house like so many...

Apple Tree

My father Mr Clarence Phillips owned Miladi farm in Jersey and had an apple orchard. One day later on in...

During the war at Summerland

I workes in a knitwear factory called Summerland during the war We heard rumours that the germans may want...

Anticipation of Evacuation II

My parents I remember, were very concerned about the war and they were watching the events in France with...

Evacuated from Guernsey

I was evacuated with my parents from Guernsey.We were put on a coalboat which was packed full of people...

Bombing of Guernsey Harbour 1940

of the machine guns and you could actually see planes flying over Town diving. That's all I remember of...

Occupation after D-day — Saved by the Red Cross

The ‘Vega’ arriving just after Christmas 1944 because we were really on our beam ends RUTH...

Occupation after D-day — Contents of Red Cross parcels

There was powdered egg, Klim, which was powdered milk, some had chocolate, big flat breakfast biscuits,...

Hearing of the Bombing of St Peter Port Harbour 1940

Len's father was driving a lorry for Lihou and Baker, tomato exporters, and he came back with the...

School life under German occupation. Starting school at Torteval

Starting school at Torteval. I remember starting school, the infants were at the Torteval Methodist...

Slave labourers in Guernsey

They were going up the hill to build fortifications where the — I don't know, now, in French we...

Cats, Dogs, and Limpets during the German Occupation of Guernsey

We had de Garis, Jack de Garis that side of us, and we had Ernest de Garis our neighbour. he used to...

Agricultural labour in Guernsey during the German Occupation

Mr Ray Caradeuc interviewed by Margaret Le Cras. Transcribers note : Transcription difficult at times...

Liberation

Mrs Stella Le Tissier interviewed by Margaret Le Cras 25/4/05 Edited transcript of recording. But anyway,...

Chapel Life during the German occupation of Guernsey

But another thing I wanted to say, at every service at Torteval — because I don't know if they...

St Helier

Walking along the river rhine embankment at Cologne, with the famous Holengolons bridge to my rear and the...

S S Vega arrives in Guernsey

Mr Ray Caradeuc interviewed by Margaret Le Cras. Les Roches Douvres Ray Caradeuc....