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- Guernseymuseum
- People in story:Ìý
- BRIAN LE CONTE
- Location of story:Ìý
- Guernsey
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A3992420
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 03 May 2005
SHOULD WE EVACUATE?
At the beginning of the Occupation I had only just started school. I used to walk up to the Hautes Capelles School, and a certain day came along when I went with my mother, kitted out with a suitcase, a gas mask, a label on my jacket saying who I was… We were given an apple … by about 11 o’clock there was no sign of us going so we were told that we could go back home, come back again at 1 o’clock, when the same thing happened … We hung around for some time but there was no news of transport, whether it was the boat, or getting us to the boat I don’t know, at the White Rock, so more apples and back home again. We came back at say 4 o’clock, I don’t know exactly the time. By this time of course you can imagine my parents were getting a bit fraught. At 4 o’clock again there was no go, so this time my mother decided to take me down to my grandmother … deep discussions there, and it was decided that I wasn’t going to be taken back to the school any more, I would stay and that would be it.
BRIAN LE CONTE
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