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The Society has published a regular magazine since 1945. The Bulletin appeared eight times during 1945 and 1946. It became Quarterly Review of the Guernsey Society in January 1947, and continued until 1971, when the frequency was reduced to three times a year, and the title changed to The Review of the Guernsey Society.
This Command Bunker forms part of Battery Lothringen, a site managed by the CIOS (Jersey Branch) 10.5cm Casemate at Corbiere managed by the CIOS Jersey The Channel Islands Occupation Society (CIOS) is a voluntary organisation that seeks to study all aspects of the German occupation of the Channel Islands and to raise awareness and educate the public about the occupation during the Second World ...
The Guernsey Roll of Honour includes 1,343 who were Bailiwick of Guernsey individuals or who served in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. The economic depression in the 1930s also affected Guernsey. Unemployed labourers being given jobs such as building sea defences and constructing roads, including Le Val des Terres, opened in 1935 by Le ...
German soldiers in Jersey. During the five-year German occupation of the Channel Islands (30 June 1940 to 9 May 1945) civilian life became much more difficult. During that time, the Channel Islanders had to live under and obey the laws of Nazi Germany and work with their occupiers in order to survive and reduce the impact of occupation.
Bonnard B & J — A natural history of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm; Bonser N.R.P — The Guernsey Railway, ISBN 978-0853613299; Bonser N.R.P. The Guernsey Railway the German occupation lines; Brett C.E.B. - National Trust of Guernsey. Buildings in the Town and Parish of St Peter Port; Briggs A.
[25] The issue of collaboration was further inflamed on the Channel Islands by the fictional television programme Island at War (2004), which featured a romance between a German soldier and an island woman and favourably portrayed the German military commander of the occupation. [26] In the official history of the occupation, author Charles ...
Elections in Guernsey. 2004 Guernsey general election; 2008 Guernsey general election; 2012 Guernsey general election; 2016 Guernsey general election; 2020 Guernsey general election; Electoral firsts in Guernsey; Elizabeth College, Guernsey; Enemy at the Door; Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940; External relations of Guernsey
Channel Islands Liberated- the End of German Occupation, Channel Islands, 1945 D24595. Receiving a message from the Germans agreeing to a meeting at midnight on 8–9 May, the ships returned to the same south west coast location off Guernsey and a German minesweeper M4613 came out to meet HMS Bulldog. The German second in command, Generalmajor ...