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Operation Hardtack targets the Channel Islands |
28th December |
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The Red Cross saves Guernsey from starvation |
27th December |
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Castle Cornet surrenders to Guernsey |
17th December |
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Alderney’s evacuees return to their island |
15th December |
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Guernseyman Herbert Le Patourel wrongly thought killed |
3rd December |
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Royal Guernsey Light Infantry memorial was unveiled |
30th November |
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A Lancaster bomber crashed on Sark |
23rd November |
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Guernsey recruits caused concern in Parliament |
21st November |
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A plane crashed on Crevichon |
19th November |
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German forces confiscated Guernsey’s radios |
18th November |
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GUNS founder Charles Machon died |
26th October |
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Hitler ordered the Channel Islands’ fortification |
20th October |
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Sark was the target of Operation Basalt |
3rd October |
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Guernsey switched to Reichsmarks |
2nd October |
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“Let em starve,” said Churchill |
27th September |
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Occupation president Ambrose Sherwill died |
25th September |
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Occupation resister Winifred Green was deported |
21st September |
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Guernsey commando Hubert Nicolle died |
19th September |
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6th Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment fought at the Somme |
8th September |
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The post-Occupation military government was disbanded |
25th August |
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Police found a bomb in Bluebell Wood |
14th August |
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The RAF bombed Guernsey Airport |
9th August |
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Albert Lamy appointed Guernsey Police Chief Officer |
30th July |
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Guernsey Controlling Committee’s Sir John Leale died |
22nd July |
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First Commando raid of the Second World War |
8th July |
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Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Museum opens |
6th July |
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Alderney is occupied by German forces |
2nd July |
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Guernsey suffered its first and only air raid |
28th June |
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First meeting of Guernsey’s Controlling Committee |
25th June |
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Guernsey chose England over France |
24th June |
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Guernsey’s school children were evacuated |
21st June |
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The Channel Islands were demilitarised |
15th June |
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Occupying forces confiscated Guernsey’s radios |
8th June |
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The king and queen celebrated Guernsey’s liberation |
7th June |
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GUNS writer Joseph John Gillingham was deported |
4th June |
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Occupation stories occupy the mainland papers |
30th May |
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Guernsey woman advised to leave for her safety |
29th May |
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John Doyle was appointed Lieutenant-Governor |
23rd May |
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Wartime diplomat Wilfred Gallienne born in Guernsey |
20th May |
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Alderney was liberated at the end of the second world war |
16th May |
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British papers reported Dame of Sark’s deportation |
14th May |
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Guernsey was liberated from German occupation |
9th May |
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Alderney debated in the House of Commons |
6th May |
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Guernsey deportee, nurse Gladys Skillett was born |
2nd May |
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Three Jewish women are deported from Guernsey |
21st April |
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Royal Guernsey Light Infantry fights at Ypres |
14th April |
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Battery Mirus was test fired for the first time |
13th April |
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An occupation-era minefield is discovered at L’Ancresse |
5th April |
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Enemy at the Door comes to the end of its run |
29th March |
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Soldiers staged a mutiny at Fort George |
21st March |
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Birth of Baron James de Saumarez |
11th March |
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Occupying forces mount a desperate raid on Granville |
9th March |
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Guernsey’s entire police force is arrested |
5th March |
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Second World War bomb detonated |
29th February |
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The last issue of GUNS was distributed |
11th February |
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Birth of Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann |
2nd February |
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Guernsey opens its wartime files |
5th January |
