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TPL_00180
Messrs. Toms and Keates in a moment of relaxation at Candie Gardens outdoor "studio" - the balcony east of the bandstand.
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German half-tracks were linked together and used to transport heavy loads such as the guns of Batterie Mirus. Seen here is one of the huge carriages that will eventually mount the 30.5cm gun barrel sitting on a 24 wheeled trailer being towed past the White Rock weighbridge.
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Heavy construction equipment was used during the building of the fortifications, this crane with fitted with a grab was used during the excavation process. Photographed at the top of the slipway next to the Albert statue, note the road sign painted at the foot of the wall and the 'Antee’ floating crane seen in the background.
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A Guernsey police officer and German chauffeur stand by the Commandants car while he pays a visit to the Little Chapel at Les Vauxbelets, Guernsey.
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The Germans commandeered all but a very few private cars on the island. These were taken to the Albert Pier to await shipment to France.
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This cut down furniture van was transformed into a very efficient ambulance which ran on charcoal gas and was ready for service by September 1942.
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A crowd has gathered at the Weighbridge, Guernsey to see the Red Cross ship SS Vega which has docked at the Cambridge Berth, St Peter Port with much needed supplies for the islands population. Note the German century box and the heavily protected fencing around the harbour.
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Food from the SS Vega being unloaded by Germans from railway wagons whilst supervised by the St John's Ambulance in St Peter Port.
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Food from the SS Vega being unloaded by Germans from railway wagons whilst supervised by the St John's Ambulance in St Peter Port.
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The Swedish ship SS Vega, chartered by the International Red Cross to take Red Cross Supplies to the Channel Islands, at the London Berth, St Peter Port Harbour, Guernsey. Note German FK vessels moored alongside and trains on the quay.
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Major F. Sargent, Lt-Col Rogers and an Evening Post reporter at Les Landes, 1946. The cliffs at Les Landes, St Ouen, Jersey are sheer and over 200 feet high. These were chosen as the most suitable site for dumping all the German medium and heavy coastal artillery pieces.
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The Germans installed a railway network to move food and materials around the island, these were used extensively during the construction of the fortifications. This derelict locomotive lies in St Sampson along Bulwer Avenue with various rolling stock prior to being scrapped.
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An ex-RAF Coles mobile crane lifts a depth charge found at Batterie Mirus by workers of John Upham during the scrap metal drive of the early 1950’s. The charge was originally thought to be a large grease drum used in the operation of the gun, camouflaging its true lethal purpose.
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Armour from German fortifications being cut up with a thermal lance at Les Monmains ready for transportation to the United Kingdom as scrap metal.
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As part of the post war clearance operations ammunition was loaded onto LCTs and dumped in the Hurd Deep. Here we see wicker baskets containing 8.8cm shells about to be thrown overboard by POWs.
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Shortly after Liberation the massive task of clearing ammunition began. The majority of the ammunition was loaded aboard LCTs by German PoW s and taken to the eastern end of Hurd Deep where the water is some 550 feet deep. This image shows the loading of ammunition at Northside, Vale.
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Armour from German fortifications being cut up at Les Monmains for transportation to the United Kingdom as scrap metal. Note the Vale Mill and the railway embankment in the background.
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The last of the French Char B1 tanks is loaded onto a Landing Craft Tank (LCT), at La Haul Slip, St Aubin’s Bay, Jersey on the 17th May, 1946. These tanks had been captured by the Germans and formed Panzer Abteilung 213 that was stationed in the island. They were returned to France and the French Army.
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This well-known photograph used for propaganda shows a German military band marching past Lloyds Bank at the foot of Smith Street in St Peter Port, Guernsey. This image shows the head of a column of troops approaching the High Street.
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Lager Ursula, a former Organisation Todt labour camp, at La Rue Sauvage, St. Sampson's, Guernsey. It was decided that as many buildings were infested, it was more expedient to burn the structures down than disinfect and disassemble.
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Britain’s first commando and one of Guernsey’s most respected war heroes, Lieutenant Hubert F. Nicolle, twice landed in German occupied Guernsey on spying missions. He spent his twenty-first birthday in solitary confinement, in the notorious Cherche Midi Prison located near Paris, under sentence of death by firing squad.
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Baron Max Von Aufsess, Civil administrator for three and a half years in Jersey. Photo taken post war at Schloss Aufsess, Bavaria.
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The press censor Sonderfuehrer Kurt Goettmann appointed on the 27th January 1942 at the age of 32. His previous experience included working in press offices in both Paris and London. The censor role was to ensure that anything published followed the stringent rules set out by the Germans.
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The press censor Sonderfuehrer Kurt Goettmann appointed on the 27th January 1942 at the age of 32. His previous experience included working in press offices in both Paris and London. The censor role was to ensure that anything published followed the stringent rules set out by the Germans.
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Target practice using an MG34 on Platte Saline in Alderney during the summer of 1942. Fort Albert can be seen in the background.
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A Sergeant and ten soldiers took over Sark at the beginning of the occupation, at the end there were almost three hundred. This image shown German troops marching along the Avenue.
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During the early days of the occupation German troops found Sark public houses well stocked with beer and spirits. Soldiers always removed their belts and sidearms when on licenced premises.
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People queuing at the junction of the Rohais and La Foulon to collect rations of sea water in which to boil food as salt was unobtainable.
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Percy Brown, Sark`s postman delivering mail on August Bank Holiday, one month after the German Occupation of Sark.
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La Coupee, the narrow road linking Sark with Little Sark was in such a bad state of repair that the Royal Engineers used German prisoner of war labour to reconstructed the complete road in concrete.
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Oberst (Colonel) Knackfuss, Guernsey Feldkommandantur, with Mr. G.MacDonald, caretaker of Jethou.
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Oberst (Colonel) Knackfuss, Guernsey Feldkommandantur, with Mr. G.MacDonald, caretaker of Jethou.
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Sonderfuehrer Hans Herzog and his dog Lux seen here at the old harbour in Alderney whilst out catching shrimps.
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Mrs Winifred Green, a waitress at the Royal Hotel, who was imprisoned for four months at Caen for saying "Heil Churchill".
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Mrs Winifred Green, a waitress at the Royal Hotel, who was imprisoned for four months at Caen for saying "Heil Churchill".
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German personnel and their guests on the way to the Casquets for an outing in the summer of 1941.
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Oberst (Colonel) Schumacher of Feldkommondantur 515 based in Jersey seen here outside Lloyds Bank Alderney May 1941.
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Vizeadmiral Fredrich Hueffmeir and Generalmajor Rudolf Wulf are seen here after the German surrender when they arrived in Plymouth on 12th May 1945.
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Frank Stroobant with Fred Williams and the 'Silent Whisper' at Laufen, after their Liberation, in April 1945.
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The Commandant Dr Lanz (middle) with Lieutenant Muller (left) and Dr Maas (right) shown here in Sark.
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Soldiers relaxing outside the Bel Air Hotel, the German headquarters in Sark until it was accidentally destroyed by fire caused by careless use of a paraffin stove.
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Mr F.M Dickson who was caretaker in Herm during the Occupation, the Germans referred to him as Robinson Crusoe.
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Germans man a 3.7cm Pak anti-tank gun in the entrance to the St Johns Ambulance Station located at the top of the Rohais, St Peter Port. At great risk this was photographed by Reg Blanchford.