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My uncle, a Guernsey farmer from the thirties until the seventies, left the island only on a very few occasions in his long life. One of these was when the island of Alderney had been evacuated, prior to the German invasion. He sailed to Alderney with a group of other farmers to see what live stock remained on the island. He returned with a farm horse, later called Colonel, that lived and worked on the farm well into the sixties. I can remember riding on 鈥淐olonel鈥檚鈥� back as a child on holiday on Guernsey.

Another uncle, on Jersey, lined his garden paths with upturned bottles of wine, instead of letting the German occupation army confiscate his considerable collection. When a bottle was emptied it was returned to the path. After the liberation an aunt, living in England, sent him a parcel of sweets and cigarettes from England. He replied on the 30th September 1945 that she should not have sent them as cigarettes had been on sale for a week and sweets were going to be on sale as from 1st October 1945, for the first time in 5 years and 2 months!

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