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.
Baron Max Von Aufsess, Civil administrator for three and a half years in Jersey. Photo taken post war at Schloss Aufsess, Bavaria.
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.
German officers listen to a band playing in Market Square, St Peter Port. Note the air raid shelter sign on the wall.
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.
Corporal Forst and Sergeant Major Ertel photographed outside Lloyds Bank in Alderney 1941.
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.
German forces made a mad rush for the well stocked shops in the early days of the occupation. Here we see both Germans and civilians in the High Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey.
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.
A group of visitors to Sark in 1940, note the swastika painted at the tunnel entrance leading from Creux harbour.
Mrs Sibyl Hathaway talking to three German officers who have called on her at La Seigneurie in Sark where she remained throughout the occupation.
Oberst (Colonel) Knackfuss, Guernsey Feldkommandantur, with Mr. G.MacDonald, caretaker of Jethou.
Oberst (Colonel) Knackfuss, Guernsey Feldkommandantur, with Mr. G.MacDonald, caretaker of Jethou.
German Officers in Alderney. Oberst Knackfuss (with monocle) with other officers and what appears to be a forced labourer.
Sonderfuehrer Hans Herzog and his dog Lux seen here at the old harbour in Alderney whilst out catching shrimps.
Mrs Winifred Green, a waitress at the Royal Hotel, who was imprisoned for four months at Caen for saying "Heil Churchill".
German personnel and their guests on the way to the Casquets for an outing in the summer of 1941.
Peter Doyle, Sonderfuehrer Herzog and George Pope a fisherman and pilot, photographed in Alderney.
Hans Herzog, second from right and German officials seen here with C.F. Hutchesson on the far right.
Oberst (Colonel) Schumacher of Feldkommondantur 515 based in Jersey seen here outside Lloyds Bank Alderney May 1941.
The Commandant Dr Lanz (middle) with Lieutenant Muller (left) and Dr Maas (right) shown here in Sark.
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.
At the Hotel Metropole, site of the military headquarters in Jersey, a meeting took place before the Red Cross cargo was unloaded. Baron von Aufsess, Colonel Iselin, Duret Aubin and the Bailiff Coutanche were all present.
In 1940 it was soon evident there would be a shortage of domestic fuel so many tons of peat were dug from a bog at Vazon in Guernsey and St Ouen`s Bay in Jersey.
Mr F.M Dickson who was caretaker in Herm during the Occupation, the Germans referred to him as Robinson Crusoe.
Outside the Alderney headquarters for the Feldkommondantur 515, the German Civilian administration on 1st May 1941. Hans Herzog the Sonderfuehrer for Alderney is seen with members from the Feldkommondantur 515 Guernsey and Jersey, which were based at the Grange Lodge and Victoria College respectively. Also there was second from the left, Oberst Schumacher and fourth from the left peeping through the gap is Dr. Kratzer.
Generalmajor Rudolf Wulf who was the Festungskommandant Jersey at liberation seen here after the award of his Knight’s cross of the Iron Cross, on 12th January 1943. At the time he was an Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-Colonel) in charge of an infantry regiment.
Ration queue extending down The Pollet in St Peter Port, past P. W. Kimber Gold and Silver Smiths, past a sparse looking shop window display, and C. A. Martin & Sons Ltd Hardware Shop.
Guernsey, 9th May 1945. Colonel H. R. Power, OBE, MC (late Glosters), Chief civil affairs Officer (CCAO), No. 20 Civil Affairs Unit, HQ Guernsey, Force 135.
The floating crane 'Antee’ being manoeuvred in the Old Harbour now better known now as the Albert Marina. This crane was used to offload many of the supplies brought to the island by the Germans including construction supplies and artillery pieces. The pier was fenced off to the public, in the background you can see a number of radio vehicles sited on the Crown Pier.
Fishing boats laid up at the Old Harbour, St Peter Port, following the order for all boats to be moved to main harbours.
Fishing boats laid up at the Old Harbour, St Peter Port, following the order for all boats to be moved to main harbours.
Photograph of LSI (H) St Helier in 'D-Day’ camouflage carrying Landing Craft Assault and flying her Anti-Aircraft balloon. The reverse has been endorsed, “Passed for transmission through the post but not good for publication.” There are also two signatures, T. McBryde and P. J. Hickson, Surg. Lieut., RNVR, and an oval cachet in red, “Commanding Officer H.M.S. “St Helier” – 8 Feb 1945.” St Helier downed a German Stuka and rescued 10,200 troops at Dunkirk.
Captain Glasson, Elder Brother of Trinity House, and two other officials arrived at Guernsey in HMS Leith on 17th May, 1945. They visited Les Hanois Lighthouse off the west coast of Guernsey and the lighthouses on Sark and Alderney.
Mrs Bessie Duplain disembarking from SS Autocarrier on her return to Alderney in December 1945.
Alderney’s greeting to repatriated islanders who returned in December 1945 after an absence of over five years. This marked one of the happiest days in islander’s history. Homecomers who had not seen their island since June 1940 stepped ashore to a warm welcome.
20mm anti-aircraft gun salvaged in April 1969 by Mr Len Mecham and his crew of divers from the wreck of the VP209 'Dr. Rudolph Wahrenorff'. On cleaning the barnacles from the remains of the magazine five 20mm rounds were revealed.
20mm anti-aircraft gun salvaged in April 1969 by Mr Len Mecham and his crew of divers from the wreck of the VP209 'Dr. Rudolph Wahrenorff'. On cleaning the barnacles from the remains of the magazine five 20mm rounds were revealed.
20mm anti-aircraft gun salvaged in April 1969 by Mr Len Mecham and his crew of divers from the wreck of the VP209 'Dr. Rudolph Wahrenorff'. On cleaning the barnacles from the remains of the magazine five 20mm rounds were revealed.
20mm anti-aircraft gun salvaged in April 1969 by Mr Len Mecham and his crew of divers from the wreck of the VP209 'Dr. Rudolph Wahrenorff'. On cleaning the barnacles from the remains of the magazine five 20mm rounds were revealed.
20mm anti-aircraft gun salvaged in April 1969 by Mr Len Mecham and his crew of divers from the wreck of the VP209 'Dr. Rudolph Wahrenorff'. On cleaning the barnacles from the remains of the magazine five 20mm rounds were revealed.
20mm anti-aircraft gun salvaged in April 1969 by Mr Len Mecham and his crew of divers from the wreck of the VP209 'Dr. Rudolph Wahrenorff'. On cleaning the barnacles from the remains of the magazine five 20mm rounds were revealed.
One of the many ships used by the Germans to transport war material to the islands which came to grief on the treacherous north coast of Jersey.
A crowd of joyous Guernsey islanders in front of the Growers Co-Operative Society building in St Peter Port on May 9th 1945.