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TPL_00296
Corporal Forst and Sergeant Major Ertel photographed outside Lloyds Bank in Alderney 1941.
TPL_00292
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.
TPL_00291
A group of visitors to Sark in 1940, note the swastika painted at the tunnel entrance leading from Creux harbour.
TPL_00290
German officers of Feldkommondantur 515 riding some of the fine German horses imported into the islands during the Occupation, overlooking Gorey Harbour, Jersey.
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Mrs Sibyl Hathaway talking to three German officers who have called on her at La Seigneurie in Sark where she remained throughout the occupation.
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Oberst (Colonel) Knackfuss, Guernsey Feldkommandantur, with Mr. G.MacDonald, caretaker of Jethou.
TPL_00287
Oberst (Colonel) Knackfuss, Guernsey Feldkommandantur, with Mr. G.MacDonald, caretaker of Jethou.
TPL_00285
German Officers in Alderney. Oberst Knackfuss (with monocle) with other officers and what appears to be a forced labourer.
TPL_00284
Sonderfuehrer Hans Herzog and his dog Lux seen here at the old harbour in Alderney whilst out catching shrimps.
TPL_00282
Mrs Winifred Green, a waitress at the Royal Hotel, who was imprisoned for four months at Caen for saying "Heil Churchill".
TPL_00280
Peter Doyle, Sonderfuehrer Herzog and George Pope a fisherman and pilot, photographed in Alderney.
TPL_00279
Hans Herzog, second from right and German officials seen here with C.F. Hutchesson on the far right.
TPL_00277
Oberst (Colonel) Schumacher of Feldkommondantur 515 based in Jersey seen here outside Lloyds Bank Alderney May 1941.
TPL_00276
Vizeadmiral Fredrich Hueffmeir and Generalmajor Rudolf Wulf are seen here after the German surrender when they arrived in Plymouth on 12th May 1945.
TPL_00275
Frank Stroobant with Fred Williams and the 'Silent Whisper' at Laufen, after their Liberation, in April 1945.
TPL_00273
Several bombs were dropped on Sark by British aircraft, these German soldiers are excavating the remains of a bomb that fell in the garden next to the Vicarage.
TPL_00272
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.
TPL_00268
Platzkommandant Hans Max Baron von Aufsess held the key position of Head of Civil Affairs of Feldkommondantur 515, in Jersey.
TPL_00266
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.
TPL_00265
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.
TPL_00262
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.
TPL_00260
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.
TPL_00259
Sergeant Oeser outside Feldkommondantur 515 headquarters at Lloyds Bank, Alderney in June 1941.
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Germans stand alongside one of the cannons of Castle Cornet in St Peter Port. The Castle was the 'Hafenschlosss' (harbour Castle) during the occupation of Guernsey by German forces from 1940 until 1945. The occupying forces built air raid shelters and platforms for anti aircraft-guns to update the Castle for 20th century warfare.
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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.
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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.
TPL_00256
Fishing boats laid up at the Old Harbour, St Peter Port, following the order for all boats to be moved to main harbours.
TPL_00255
Fishing boats laid up at the Old Harbour, St Peter Port, following the order for all boats to be moved to main harbours.
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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.
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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.
TPL_00252
Mrs Bessie Duplain disembarking from SS Autocarrier on her return to Alderney in December 1945.
TPL_00241
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.
TPL_00250
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.
TPL_00249
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.
TPL_00248
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.
TPL_00247
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.
TPL_00246
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.
TPL_00386
A crowd of joyous Guernsey islanders in front of the Growers Co-Operative Society building in St Peter Port on May 9th 1945.
TPL_00354
Members of the British Legion, banners flying and led by Mr. T. Macathie, entering Elizabeth College grounds, St Peter Port, Guernsey, for the Reading of the Proclamation and the King’s Message by Channel Island Commander, Brigadier Snow, on Saturday afternoon, 12th May, 1945.
TPL_00353
Group I, First Lift, of the Channel Islands Liberation fleet, codenamed 'agent’, commanded by Rear-Admiral C. G. Stuart, DSO, DSC, (Retd) serving in the rank of Captain, RN, Naval force Commander, Force 135, bound for Guernsey sailed from Plymouth at 15.45 hours on 11th may, 1945, 'W’ Day plus 7, and arrived off St Peter Port at 07.15 hours on Saturday, 12th May.
TPL_00237
May 9th 1946. The great day finished with a display on a big scale of Brock’s fireworks. The gigantic firework display began at 10.15 p.m. and were fired from the White Rock Pier, St Peter Port.
TPL_00236
May 9th 1946. At the end of the procession were the members of St John Ambulance Brigade under Ambulance Officer J. Shore.