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Ronald John Le Moignan
Videotape of interview with Lynne Ashton transcribed by J David 23/9/05

Mr Le Moignan. My name is Ronald John Le Moignan, and I was born at the Lady Ozannne Maternity Hospital in St Peter Port, which actually is still there, it is called Ozanne House, and I visited it recently and had a look at the façade and that, I was the son of Douglas William Le Moignan, who was a fireman in the Fire Brigade in Guernsey, my mother was Laura May Billow who was a Jersey girl, and I was born in 1936, May 18th 1936. My first reminiscence of the whole thing was that I remember being gathered up one day and starting on this journey. I was particularly fortunate because my parents came with us, my father had elected to go to the United Kingdom because he had experience in fire-fighting, he was a trained fire-fighter and he was fairly way up in the local fire brigade, he had skills which were useful to the United Kingdom, and so we left as a total family, so we did not go through the trauma as other people did, terrible experiences, of their children being taken away, voluntary being taken away but you would understand the idea behind it. My first experiences there was that I can remember being on this boat, and I remember, because I was still young then, only four or five, only five, is an air-raid taking place, and the boat stayed off the harbour for a considerable period of time, I think it was Weymouth, I am certain it was Weymouth, but I can’t say that for sure. But I do know that when we eventually got in we did come off that boat, we were entrained, and we journeyed straight on from that — it was in the early morning, at dawn, I have a blank in my memory from there, but my next major reminiscence was when we were up in Wrexham in North Wales, so I think the train had through that day gone to

Ron Le Moignan

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