
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Guernsey
- Town
- St Peter Port
- County
- Channel Islands
- Country
- Channel Islands
- Commemoration
- Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 8 May 2010
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 97751
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- Description
- A grey oval tablet with a double line engraved dark border and dark letters
- Inscription
- THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES / THE EVACUATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS / AHEAD OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE ISLAND / BY GERMAN FORCES IN JUNE 1940 // FOUR FIFTHS OF THE CHILDREN AND ALTOGETHER / ALMOST HALF THE POPULATION OF GUERNSEY / WERE TRANSPORTED TO ENGLAND SO THAT / SCARCELY A FAMILY WAS UNDIVIDED // A LA PERCHOINE // Translation – ‘Until we meet again’
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War - civilians
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- War Memorial On Line: memorials.iwm.org.uk/memorials/253473 - Accessed 14 August 2021
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