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Eileen May de Mouilpied interviewed at the Guille-Alles Library by Becky Kendall of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Guernsey, 5/2/2005. Transcribed and Edited by John David, November 2005

I………. What can you remember about the day that Guernsey was actually liberated?
That’s another wonderful thing. We went at l’Ancresse, at Pembroke, and remember seeing the boats coming in, and the landing stage, and all the Tommies running across that slip that’s there, running across, and they were throwing sweets and chocolate, it was wonderful, I’ll never forget that, and practically all night they were sort of dancing, and greeting one another, and every liberation day the thoughts go to that, and another thing, when we left the beach the tummies went into the l'Ancresse Lodge Hotel, I was with them, actually, went in where they were putting all their kits down into the ballroom, and I had my grandmother who was living two doors away, past the Lodge, and I said to one “Will you come and see my granny with me, so I took him round the back, my granny was a bit frightened because she thought it was a German, you know, and I explained who it was. We went back, and I was jumping all over the kits. There were other children, I wasn’t the only one.

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