
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: 23 April 2010
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 97752
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- Description
- A grey rectangular tablet with gold letters
- Inscription
- THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES / THE ILLEGAL DEPORTATION BY GERMAN OCCUPYING FORCES / OF 1,003 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM GUERNSEY AND SARK / IN SEPTEMBER 1942 AND FEBRUARY 1943 TO CAPTIVITY IN / CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE // IT REMEMBERS THE 16 ISLANDERS WHO DIED THERE / AND WHOSE NAMES ARE LISTED BELOW:- // (Names) // ALSO REMEMBERING OTHER ISLANDERS WHO WERE FOR OTHER REASONS / DEPORTED AND DIED IN LABOUR CAMPS AND PRISONS IN EUROPE. //
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Boon, Ernest
Byrch, Albert
Cockayne, Ruth
Dunkley, Augustus
Herrington, Percy
Jackson, Stanley
Le Goupillot, Henry
Manning, Florence
Marr, Florence
Norman, Cecil
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
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/253476 - Accessed 14 August 2021
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