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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

After that, I was just started school, and we were at the Vale School, but after some time the Germans took over the Vale School, and we were down at the chapel, which is now St Paul’s, and there were two rooms there, one was being used as the vestry and there was another room. There was two teachers there,
I………. So there were some teachers left in the island?
Oh yes, I am not sure if these were qualified teachers or they were just helping out.
I………. So even thought the rest of the children had been evacuated, you were still able to meet up with other children…
Oh yes, because we had to go every morning, and each morning, when it was time for biscuits and that, there was a tin of biscuits, and we had two biscuits each, and a glass of milk. And when the tin came empty we had it in turn to have the crumbs, and I had a little nephew, and I had to take one of my biscuits to him, I used to eat one biscuit and take one biscuit to him, Johnnie Legg, he used to look forward to his biscuit.
There was Germans all along the roads, and there was barbed wire all along the walls of the Vale School

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