World War II: British Channel Islands Evacuees


Figure 1.--Here a group of girls evacuated from the Channel Islands in June 1940 to Marple in Cheshire try on clothes and shoes which have been donated as gifts by Americans. We do not know which island they came from, but it was probably Guernsey.

We do not yet have much detiled information on the experience of the islanders after reaching safety. Military age men went into the services. The Guernsey children reached Weymouth and were sent north like the children evacuated fron British cities. We do not yet have information on the Alderney evacuees. Jersey and Sark evacueees were more limited. Families separated were cut off for the duration of the War, apart from a few Red Cross letters which were limited to a small number of letters.







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