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The evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940 was an organised, partial, nautical evacuation of Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands, primarily from Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney to Great Britain during World War II. The evacuation occurred in phases, starting with school aged children, their teachers, and mother volunteers.
The Channel Islands, comprising the Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey, which also comprised Alderney and Sark, fell under German control on 30 June 1940.. Prior to this, the lightning Blitzkrieg resulting in the fall of France gave the British government and the island governments just enough time to evacuate those who were willing to leave the islands immediately.
The islands were seriously in debt, with the island governments owing over £10,000,000, [70]: 200 having had to pay for the evacuation ships, the costs incurred by evacuees in the UK, the cost of the "occupation forces", being wages, food, accommodation and transport as well as the cost of providing domestics for the Germans, providing ...
A number of events greatly affected the whole civilian population in the Channel Islands: Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940. 28 June 1940 bombing of islands by the Luftwaffe; July 1940 German troops arrive and occupation starts. Winter 1941-42 when the islands were inundated with soldiers and construction workers
Authorities in New York have arrested a man in connection with the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl who has since been found. Emmarae Gervasi disappeared from Suffolk County, N.Y., on Dec. 8 ...
A five-day-old puppy was found alive underneath a collapsed building during a fire evacuation in Pasadena, a local animal shelter has said. Pasadena Humane Society said the tiny animal was brought ...
A 64-year-old hiker missing in Oregon’s Shore Acres State Park was found alive over the weekend, authorities said. The U.S. Coast Guard said in a news release that the hiker had not been seen ...
When Cherbourg and St Malo fell to the Americans, the islands were cut off and both civilian and German rations were reduced. In retaliation Sibyl Hathaway and a few helpers raided the German supply in the village hall and took away a ton of grain on a cart; the mill at La Seigneurie ground the grain into flour and it was distributed successfully.