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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 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
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 women who have been killed ranged in age from their 20s to their 80s. The youngest was Patrycja Wryebek, who was 20. Elizabeth Dobbin was 82 when she was killed in her Larne home.
(Reuters) -An artillery strike that hit a refugee camp near Myanmar's border with China has killed at least 29 people, including women and children, media and sources said on Tuesday, in one of ...
A German tourist died after being bitten by a shark on Monday while sailing off Spain's Canary Islands, the coastguard said.. The 30-year-old woman lost a leg in the attack and died of a heart ...
Operation Hardtack was a series of commando raids in the Channel Islands. Hardtack 7 was a raid on Sark. The team failed to climb the cliffs on the first attempt and withdrew. Returning the next night they walked into a minefield; two were killed and most of the others were wounded but made their escape in canoes.