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CIOS (Jersey) Archive

Updated December 2005

 Collection of photographs and paperwork

deposited with the Jersey Archive

Compiled by Mark Lamerton ~ Society Archivist

CIOS (Jersey) Archive

Photographic Archive

 

German “Green Books” and Related Photographs 

Green Album No.1 (L/D/25/F1/1)

Defence Sector South (170 items).

Defence Sector North (74 items).

Defence Sector East (84 items). 

 

Green Album No.2 (L/D/25/F1/1)

Defence Sector West (225 items).

Tanks (AFV) in Jersey (18 items).

Duplicate Photographs (8 items).

Negatives of Green Book photographs. 

Occupation/Liberation/Post War

 Blue Album No.1 (L/D/25/F2/1)

Occupation (80 items).

Uncaptioned Channel Islands photographs 1943~1945 donated by P. Curwood Esq. in August 1989 (76 items).

Major Curt Wolperding, Adjutant Infantrie Regiment 582 collection (21items).

Leutnant Curtze, commander 6th Batterie Artillerie Regiment 319 collection donated via Major Roy Dobin (52 items).

12th Minesweeper Flotilla collection donated by Herr Fritz Schmidt 7th September 1987 (47 items).

Cezembre 1943 Collection donated by Herr Otto Koch 7th October 1987 (9 photographs).

2 Pionier Abteilung 319 Collection donated by former members of the Unit (20 items).

Channel Island Shipping 1940~1945 (32 items).

German troops, location unknown. Donated by Mr. Rayson 2003 (4 items).

The Luftwaffe in Jersey 1940~1941 (42 items).

Luftwaffe (17 items).

German Cemetery, St Brelade’s, Jersey, some donated by Paul Luber’s daughter, Marlies Stiller (10 items).

Funeral of Sergeants Butlin and Holden 6th June 1943 (9 items).

Nursing and St John Ambulance Brigade during the Occupation (9 items). 

 

Blue Album No.2 (L/D/25/F2/2)

MAA 604 and Batterie ‘Lothringen’, Noirmont, Jersey, 1941~1986, (141 items).

Blue Album No.3 (L/D/25/F2/3)

Two examples of the Force 135 Liberation insignia. Donated by Major R. Dobin (2 items)

Surrender/Liberation 1945 (66 items).

Red Cross Parcels (12 items).

German POWs (24 items).

German Naval Vessels in St Helier Harbour, Charles Brown Collection (8 items).

French North African POWs in Jersey (37 items).

Empire Day 24th May 1945 (2 items). 

 

Blue Album No.4 (L/D/25/F2/4)

Royal Visit 7th June 1945 (17 items).

First Mail Boat Arrives, St Helier Harbour, 26th June 1945, (3 items).

Jersey Airport 1945 (3 items).

Jersey’s Lieutenant-Governor Arrives, August 1945, (5 items).

Force 135 Church Parade August 1945 (13 items).

Island Events 1945~1947 (29 items).

Cleaning Up Period (33 items).

German Tunnels (12 items).

Organisation Todt (O.T.) Railway (14 items).

Guernsey German Occupation and Liberation (16 items).

Alderney: includes: German troops in Alderney donated by Robert Bayer, Weinbergstr 20, 34587 Felsberg, Germany, in 1995, who was stationed in Jersey.

1942~43 and Alderney 1943~45 (6 items).

Liberation of Alderney, Charles Brown Collection, (9 items).

Liberation of Alderney, Naval Vessels that removed the German POWs, donated by Harry Jeffrey 9th May 1995, (16 items). 

 

Blue Album No.5 (L/D/25/F2/5)

Post War views of Jersey donated by M. Smith, Newark, (11 items).

German aircraft at Jersey Airport during the filming of ‘The Battle of Britain’, 11th May 1968, (6 items).

German Tunnels in Jersey 1973 donated by M. Delanoe (22 items).

Elizabeth Castle 1973 donated by M. Delanoe (8 items).

Bunker at Sudfort, Havre des Pas, donated by M. Delanoe (1 item).

Corbière, 10.5 cm casemate and tower 1973 (7 items).

Artillery HQ bunker, I./AR 319, at “Hinguette”, Mont de la Rocque, donated by M. Delanoe 1973 (28 items).

St Ouen’s Bay Defences and Les Landes 1973 donated by M. Delanoe (24 items).

German Underground Hospital (8 items). 

 

Blue Album No.6 (L/D/25/F2/6

German Fortifications in Jersey, A.D. Trace 1977 (23 items).

Mercedes 1943 Fire Fighting Vehicle (11 items).

Czechoslovakian 4.7cm Pak (t) Anti-Tank Gun donated by Terry Gander 1985 (27 items).

WN Le Fret 10.5cm K331 (f) coastal defence gun, removed to Guernsey in 1988, donated by Peter Whitford (5 items).

Alterations to Pomme d’Or Hotel October 1988 donated by Joe Mière (6 items).

German Fortifications in Jersey and Guernsey (84 items).

Miscellaneous (44 items).

 

Blue Album No.7 (L/D/25/F2/7)

Photographs and Ephemera of Society Events 1973~1995.

 

Blue Album No.8 (L/D/25/F2/8)

Collection of 30 stills, with original captions on the reverse, from the 1945 Ministry of Information Film produced by the Crown Film Unit, titled the Channel Islands 1940-1945. The film was shot in the Channel Islands using locals as the cast. Also included in the album is a post war “Evening Post” aerial photograph of St Aubin’s Harbour. Donated by the widow of Arthur A. H. Downer Esq., July 2003.

 

Miscellaneous

The following photographs are mounted on cardboard and have been used for exhibitions regarding the German Occupation and Liberation period and are grouped under the following titles:-

 

1) Jersey 1939~1940, Evacuation (8 photos).

2) Jersey 1st July 1940 (7 photos).

3) Jersey 9th August 1940 (8 photos).

4) The Germans in Jersey (8 photos and 3 newspaper cuttings).

5) The Red Cross (5 photos and poem).

6) Jersey 9th May 1945 (8 photos)

7) Jersey 12th May 1945 (8 photos).

8) Jersey 12th May 1945 Proclamation Ceremony (2 photos, Proclamation and newspaper cuttings).

9) Jersey 13th May 1945 (8 photos)

10) Deportation. Mrs Louisa Gould and Feodor (Bill) Burrij (3 photos, poem,

ex-political prisoners member’s ticket, birthday card, all are photocopies).

11) Alderney May 1945 (10 photos from the Charles Brown collection).

12) Guernsey May 1945 (10 photos from the Charles Brown collection)

13) Jersey’s first post-war Lieutenant Governor arrives, August 1945 (6 photos).

LIBERATION period photographs, mounted on cardboard, Charles Brown Collection and Evening Post (31 items).

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS FILE:

RAF Museum: List of photographs in the Charles Brown relating to the Liberation of the Channel Islands, held at the RAF Museum, Hendon.

Bundesarchiv, Koblenz: Photocopies of contact strips of the photographic collection relating to the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, with reference numbers and captions, held by the Bundesarchiv. Research by Colin Partridge April 1977.

 

WORLD WAR II: A collection of 70 pictures, maps and cartoons (some poster size) illustrating Hitler’s rise to power and the outbreak of World War II.

 

JERSEY AERIAL photographs, post war (23 items). 

 

Negatives

Assorted.

Visit to Tunnel Ho2 1973.

Visit to landing Beaches and Longues Battery 1974.

Visit of MVCG May 1977

Noirmont Rangefinder 19th July 1997.

Noirmont Rangefinder recovery; M19 repairs; various bunkers.

Noirmont Interior 2000; views from Mont Orgueil; Coastal Artillery HQ.

Slides

50 slides of VE Day in London, 8th May 1945, some of the Channel Islands.

17 colour slides taken of the Fortifications at Noirmont, 1980.

48 slides of the Interment Camps in Germany for Channel Islanders.

37 slides NSDAP.
 

CIOS (Jersey)

Occupation Ephemera

 

Red Album No.1 (L/D/25/D1/1)

Air Raid Precautions, Occupation permits, Identity Cards, correspondence, August 1945 Travel to the Channel Islands documentation, Jersey Rehabilitation Committee March 1947 (Requisition of Property Order and Compensation Application) forms regarding Lt-Col Woolley’s property.

 

Red Album No.2 (L/D/25/D1/2)

Transport, essential services and rationing.

 

Red Album No.3 (L/D/25/D1/3)

Occupation entertainment, Red Cross letters, philately and pre and post war post cards.

 

Red Album No.4 (L/D/25/D1/4)

Envelopes, cigarette packets, cheese box lids, etc. left under the floorboards of local houses used by German troops as billets.

 

Red Album No.5 (L/D/25/D1/5)

Occupation related correspondence, catalogue of German Captured Ground Material November 1945, reports (including 1948 report by Graf von Schmettow), aircraft recognition, details of German Awards and articles.

 

Red Album No.6 (L/D/25/D1/6)

Commemorative 110 page Yearbook, January 1941 to January 1942, of Schwere Flakabteilung 153 which was initially based in St Nazaire before moving to Jersey, with a headquarters at “Elysee” on Trinity Hill.

 

Red Album No.7 (L/D/25/D1/7)

Society Events and newspaper cuttings 1960~1984 (Deposited January 2005).

 

Red Album No.8

Society Events and newspaper cuttings, 1985 onwards (Deposited January 2005).

 

Red Albums No.9A & 9B.

Wood lists for German Units Stationed in Jersey, January ~ April 1945 (265 original documents and 12 photocopies). (Deposited December 2005)

 

Red Album No.10

Truppeneltwerk Alderney, May 1942 ~ May 1944 (145 original documents and 13 photocopies). (Deposited December 2005)

 

Red Album No.11

Grabmeldung (Burial Reports) Alderney, Guernsey and Sark 1942 ~ 1945 (107 original documents and 43 related items). (Deposited December 2005)

 

Miscellaneous folders

AERIAL LEAFLETS:

Nachrichten für die Truppe Nr.137 (x 2), 138, 146, 152, 155, 158 (x 4), 161 (x 2).

L’Amérique en Guerre No.78.

Le Courrier de L’Air No.36 1941 and 20 Janvier 1944, Mars 1944.

Entente Cordiale F.45.

Pourquoi cette photo VOUS regarde 117a.

We Protest booklet. (Some donated by A. Pipon, 1980; M. A. Cadin; Mike Rumfitt, March 2002).

 

ENTERTAINMENT POSTERS from the Occupation donated by John Blampied

1) Wests, Sunday July 4th. John Blampied Presents by Special Request No.3. Poster 10 x 30 inches.

2) Wests, Sunday August 29th. John Blampied by Special Request No.4. Poster 10 x 30 inches.

3) Wests Cinema, Monday February 21st. Graeme Ahier presents GALAXY. Poster 19 x 30 inches.

 

GRENVILLE, Arthur: National Songs of the Allies and Others. Song and music booklet, 21 pages, autographed on cover by “Gibson”.

 

JERSEY POSTER: OHMS La Collette Depot, St Helier. Harold Benest, Auctioneer to HM Government, will sell by public auction miscellaneous effects, being captured ground material. Full details in local press. Friday 6th September, 1946 at 11 a.m. Auctioneer’s Offices: Airway House, 1 Mulcaster Street. Phone: Central 1221 (laminated photocopy).

 

JERSEY IDENTITY CARD and German Unit hand stamps (photocopies). Brown album compiled and donated by Mark Lamerton, 1982.

 

MOUNT ORGEUIL CASTLE JERSEY: Copy of a lino-cut made by a member of an Infantry Battalion commanded by Major Otto Stade, who encouraged his men to take up such activities to prevent boredom. 1939, 27th August, 1942.

 

PERSONAL DOCUMENTS (3 items)

1) British Army Book 64. Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, 17th December 1944. 2) Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch 12th February 1941. 3) Bundesrepublik Deutschland Reisepass 10th May 1952.

 

POPULAR ARMY GUIDE 2, 3 and 5 (photocopies). Donated 3rd January 1998.

 

VARIETY and ENTERTAINMENT during the Occupation: Talk given by Mr John Blampied to the CIOS on 9th March 1982.

 

 

Deportations and Internment

 

Yellow Album No.1 (L/D/25/E1/1)

Deportation, Biberach, Dorsten, Laufen, and Repatriation (130 items).

 

Yellow Album No.2 (L/D/25/E1/2)

Wurzach, Wurzach Revisited (165 items, blue pages).

 

Yellow Album No.2B (L/D/25/E1/3)

Wurzach Revisited

 

Yellow Album (Box File) No.3

Basket made from sisal cord, stranded and plaited, (with butterfly embroidery) from Red Cross parcels.

Bag, as above, with flower embroidery. Donated by Mrs J.E. Bacon, 10 Rue Verli Villas, St Lawrence, Jersey.

Basket, as above, with embroidery designs.

Sample of sole as used for sandals or slippers. Donated by Mrs J.E. Bacon, 10 Rue Verli Villas, St Lawrence, Jersey, (Wurzach, Germany, from 16th September, 1942, to 23rd March, 1945.

Example of a pair of sandals made by islanders whilst interned.

Wooden badge handmade at Wurzach, Germany, 1944.

Fourteen brooches made from scraps of material etc. by Mrs J. E. Bacon during her internment in Wurzach.

Autographed book inscribed “Presented to Pamela Baverstock for 1st Prize Sewing Wurzach, Germany July 1944”. Contains 25 drawings and autographs.

(These 22 items are deposited with Société Jersiaise, Pier Road).

 

Folders

1) Copy of Memorandum Handed to the German Authorities by the Bailiff 31st August 1944.

 

2) Maps highlighting Internment Camps in Germany (3 items).

 

3) Newspaper cuttings and related items to internment of Channel Islanders.

 

4) PRO documents (photocopies). Report by the Red Cross on Biberach Internment Camp, 3rd December 1944, in French. Foreign Office correspondence regarding Internment camps, 1944-45.

 

4) Monopoly board belonging to Charles E. Daly, No.2367, Baraque 5 Chambre 6, Frontstalag 122, Compiégne, Oise. Inside of board signed by fellow inmates.

 

5) List of persons deported to Biberach Oflag 55 (VD) Germany. Donated 1987.

 

6) POSTER: The Unfair Sex by Eric Hudson. A farcical comedy in three acts. One of the plays presented by internees of Wurzach, poster by Harold Hepburn. Donated by Mrs I. O’Connor, Millbrook, Jersey.

 

Harold Hepburn Collection

The 24 pictures in this collection were painted by Harold Hepburn depicting life in

Biberach and Wurzach Internment Camps, Germany, 1942-1945. All the following

are watercolours unless stated otherwise.

 

Wurzach

HW1) Wurzach Town Church as seen from room 56.

HW2) Wurzach ~ a street outside the Interment Camp, 1943.

HW3) Wurzach ~ the Compound looking south-west.

HW4) Wurzach ~ the Compound looking south-east, 18th November 1942.

HW5) Wurzach ~ the Compound.

HW6) Wurzach ~ main entrance from Compound, 1943.

HW7) Wurzach ~ Hospital Surgery, 1943.

HW8) Wurzach ~ Schloss Hospital men’s ward 1943.

HW9) Wurzach ~ Room 56.

HW10) Wurzach ~ the Hepburn Family’s corner of Room 56. Their daughter’s bed, Mary Rose Hepburn, is on the right. 1943.

HW11) Wurzach ~ the Compound, looking south. Main entrance with children’s play area. Guard House on the right and Town Hall (Rathaus) far right.

HW12) Harold Hepburn’s desk in the hospital Orderlies Room where he painted most of his pictures of camp life, 1943.

HW13) Wurzach ~ Male Hospital orderlies Room, 19th November 1942.

HW14) Wurzach in the snow, Nazi flags at the top with British aircraft flying over head. Titled Autographs 1943, 7 signatures.

HW15) Schloss Wurzach copied from aerial photograph (damage to bottom right hand corner of painting).

HW16) Hitler Youth Camp looking out from inside Wurzach 1942 (damage to bottom right hand corner of painting).

HW17) Looking out from inside Wurzach Camp (damage to bottom right hand corner of painting).

HW18) Wurzach ~ 9th December 1942.

HW19) Wurzach ~ 9th December 1942. Rear of Schloss.

HW20) Arrival of Red Cross Parcels at the camp (unfinished).

HW21) Looking out from inside Wurzach Camp (unfinished).

HW22) Wurzach ~ Wooden bridge over stream between camp buildings (Schloss Wurzach) and small wooded park (oil painting).

HW23) Wurzach ~ Town Church 1944 (oil painting).

HW24) Wurzach ~ Town Church 1943 (pen and ink) Inscribed on reverse: Birthday Greeting to Mrs Hepburn from Pauline in Wurzach, Germany. June 29th 1943.

 

Leutkirch Area Hospital

Internees from Wurzach were sent to this hospital when requiring long-term treatment. Harold Hepburn spent some time there as a patient.

HL1) Kiegskrankenhaus Leutkirch Alleau Germany, 1943.

HL2) Kriegskrankenhaus ward Leutkirch, 1943.

 

Biberach ~ Oflag 55 Vd

HB1) Biberach ~ the soup queue, 16th October 1942.

HB2) Biberach ~ the “view” from Harold Hepburn’s wife’s quarters, 8th October 1942.

HB3) Biberach ~ Men’s Room Barrack No.6, 12th October 1942.

HB4) Biberach ~ Room at Interment Camp. Inmates: H.S. Hepburn, A.H. Spence, J. Parris, J. Blackwood, B. Hickman, P. Stasny, 12th October 1942.

HB5) Biberach ~ view of camp huts with British aircraft flying overhead, 1942.

HB6) Biberach ~ The Night Patrol or 3 o’clock in the morning (The result of a diet of black bread and vegetable soup!), 15th October 1942.

HB7) Biberach ~ Parade Ground and Barracks, 20th October 1942.

 

Miscellaneous Illustrations

BIBERACH CAMP by C.W. Theobald, 586 (oil).

 

CASE’S BRIDGE ~ WURZACH 1944 by Peter Hutton (watercolour).

 

LAUFEN CAMP by C.W. Theobald, 586, (oil).

 

WURZACH-ACH., Wurzach Village. Pen and ink sketch donated by Mrs J.E. Bacon.

 

WURZACH, THE SCHLOSS by ?, 1943. Pen and ink sketch. Inscribed on reverse “Sincere Wishes for A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year, Xmas 1943.

 

WURZACH SCHLOSS by C.W. Theobald, 586 (oil).

 

WURZACH SCHLOSS colour photograph presented to the Ex-Internees Association by the Burgermeister of Bad Wurzach, 14th August 1981.


 

CIOS (Jersey) Sound and Film Archive

 

Cassette tapes unless otherwise stated

ADENAUER, Konrad: Ich wess, dass ich ein armer Sünder bin, 1949~1967.

 

ADENAUER, Konrad: Von Köln nach Bonn.

 

ADENAUER, Konrad: Der Bundeskanzler.

 

BIRD, Mrs M: Guernsey. Occupation kitchen front.

 

BISHOP, Dr. A. C: Talks about Dr. Klüpfel, 21st September 1978.

 

BOUCHERE, P: Talks about his Newspaper Collection.

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS (THE): German Commentary including Occupation.

 

CIOS AGM: Presentation by Jersey Heritage Trust, 10th February 1982.

 

DEPORTATION: BBC Radio Jersey, 13th September 1992 (2 tapes).

 

DE ST CROIX, Jack: Talks about life at the Electricity Company during the Occupation, 9th March 1988.

 

DEUTSCHE ZEITGESCHICHTE I: Vom Kaiserrreich zur Republic 1904~1924.

 

DEUTSCHE ZEITGESCHICHTE II: Der Weg zur Machtergreifung 1928~1933.

 

DEUTSCHE ZEITGESCHICHTE III: 10 Jahre Wiederaufbau 1945~1954.

 

DORMAN, Mr: Spitfire Pilot (2 tapes).

 

ESCAPES: Interview with American Ed Clarke. D-Day and the Last Terrible Year.

 

EVACUATION ~ OCCUPATION: Personal Memories. Evacuation by Mrs M.R. Ward, Deputy Head, Bel Royal School. Occupation by Mr Denis & Mrs Betty Remon.

 

FALLA, Raymond: (also 1 BSAF tape, St Clement’s Parish Hall, 30th March 1978).

 

FONT, Francisco: Spanish worker who remained in Jersey after the German Occupation.

 

GINNS, Michael: Life at Wurzach Camp: 1942~45, 4th March 1977.

 

GINNS, Michael: Bunkers.

 

GINNS, Michael & LLOYD, Beth: Personal view, 31st July 1983.

 

GOEBBELS, Joseph: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?

 

GRUCHY, Herbert: Occupation Customs Officer at St Helier Harbour.

 

HAGEDORN, Willi: The Granville Raid, March 1945 (2 tapes, also 1 BSAF tape).

 

HAGEDORN, Willi: Cezembre, 8th April 1987 (1 BSAF tape).

 

HILL, Dr: 4th December 1978 (2 tapes). Adventures as a POW in Germany during WW II.

 

HITLER, Adolf: Reichstagssitzung vom 19. Juli 1940, 1.Teil.

 

HITLER, Adolf: Reichstagssitzung vom 19. Juli 1940, 2. Teil.

 

HITLER, Adolf: Die deutsche Kriegserklärung an Polen.

 

INTERVIEWS: Eileen Le Sueur and John Boucheré, Harold Le Druillnec (Christmas Broadcast) and Michael Ginns and Beth Lloyd (Granville Raid).

 

KEILLER, Frank: May 1985, 40th Anniversary of Liberation.

 

KEILLER, Frank: Radio Jersey 1st January 1999 (2 tapes).

 

LANDICK, Dixie: CIOS Annual Dinner October 1981.

 

LANDICK, S: Education.

 

LANDICK, S: No.3, Mill Noises.

 

LARBALESTIER, Ted: Town Pilot, 1940~45, 22nd March 1984.

 

LE BROCQ, Norman: Founder Member of the Jersey Communist Party, 13th April 1988 (2 tapes).

 

LE QUESNE, F. & SPURR, F: Radio Jersey, December 1999.

 

LE RICHE, Silver: St Helier Harbour Pilot, 1940~45.

 

LE SUEUR, Bob: Foreign Workers of the Organisation Todt (OT), 13th October 1993.

 

LONELY WAR (THE): Part 1 (27th June 1980) and Part 2 (4th July 1980).

 

NÜRNBERGER PROZESS: Weltgeschichte als Weltgericht.

 

OCCUPATION: BBC Radio Jersey (3 tapes).

 

OCCUPATION: Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4.

 

OCCUPATION: Parts 5, 6, 7 & 8.

 

OCCUPATION: Parts 10 to 15.

 

OCCUPATION SOCIETY MEETING: 23rd January 1996.

 

OSMONT, Dr. Ray: 11th March 1987.

 

POWs OF THE JAPANESE: (2 tapes).

 

PRIGENT, Gordon: 13th October 1982.

 

RENOUF, Mr: Beekeeping During the Occupation, 6th January 1982.

 

RILEY, T: 8th April 1981 (2 tapes).

 

SARGENT, Major Frank: Clearing Jersey of German Relics, 19th October 1979.

 

SINEL, Leslie: Personnel Interview, 23rd May 1982.

 

SUMMER 1940: Part One, The Distant War, June 1st~19th. CTV 19th June 1980.

 

SUMMER 1940: Part Two, “Evacuation”, June 20th~28th. CTV 26th June 1980.

 

SUMMER 1940: Part Three “Occupation” June 29th~July 5th. CTV 3rd July 1980.

 

SYVRET, Ted: His childhood on a St Ouen’s farm during the Occupation of Jersey, 10/04/2002.

WALKER, Eric: Minefield Clearance, 11th October 1995 (2 tapes).

 

VAN GELDER, Irvine: Belsen and Wurzach, interviewed 8th and 15th February 1999 (2 tapes).

 

VEGA (SS): BBC London.

 

WALLBRIDGE, John: Minesweepers.

 

YOUNGREN, Newell (Dr): American from Arizona ex-POW in Jersey.

 

Four Reditune Tapes (ex-German Underground Hospital) Donated by Joe Mière: -

Churchill’s Victory Speech; German Band & Jackboots; Orderly’s Room; Dripping Water.

 

 

Film Archive

BERTRAND: 3 x 8mm reels (duplicate copy one reel). Film taken during and just after the German Occupation 1940~1945.

 

ECREHOES: Reel tin containing 16mm Master Ektachrome, labelled “Ecrehoes”.

 

HAY, Will: Musical featuring Will Hay in reel tin marked Grundlagen der Funktechnik 1938.

 

LUXMOORE, Henriette: 22 Westwood Road, Barnes, London, SW13 0LA. Ciné 8 film. Liberation, showing scenes around the harbour, Pomme d’Or, British troops August 1945, etc. Donated 1976.

 

16mm reel of colour film in yellow plastic container, ? contents.

 

16mm reel of film “Fish in Tank” (reel marked “Stadtbildstelle Aachen”).

 

16mm reel of film “German engineers blowing up a bridge”.

 

16mm reel of film in tin marked Siemens F3, ? the same as previous.

 

16mm reel of film in tin marked “German War Film Battle of Normandy etc.”

 

16mm reel of film unmarked, ? A Circus.

 

 

Videos

CIOS (Jersey) Tape 1. Scars on the Landscape and German Occupation Railways.

 

CIOS (Jersey) Tape 2. Summer of ‘45 and Interned.

 

CIOS (Jersey) Annual Dinner Weekend, 11~12th May 1991.

 

CIOS (Jersey) Attempted recovery of Gun Barrel and Wheels October 1991; France August 1992; Gun Pit excavation January 1993.

 

CIOS (Jersey) trip to Guernsey ?1995. Running time 29 minutes.

 

CIOS (Jersey) Tour of Noirmont Command Bunker; Coastal defence Gun Casemate at La Corbière; Annual Luncheon at The Seacrest Hotel, 17th October 1998. Filmed by Derrick Cockayne of Bedford.

 

CORBIÈRE Casemate 1993.

 

HELICOPTER FLIGHT over Jersey, 20th February 1995 (13.35 minutes).

 

IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN: BBC Television 1972. Running time 60 minutes. Donated by Gary Font.

 

IN TONI’S FOOTSTEPS – The Channel Island Occupation Remembered. Hightide Productions, 2002. Running time 52 minutes.

 

NEWSREELS: German Engineers blowing up a bridge and German War Film of the Battle for Normandy. Video of 16mm black and white film. Running time 26 minutes.

 

PT509 THE LAST PATROL – Battle for the Channel Islands. The true story of courage, friendship and loss surrounding the sinking of PT509 off Noirmont Point, Jersey in 194, including rare archive footage and one veteran’s remarkable achievement. Underwater Video Services Ltd (UVS), Jersey, 2001. Running time 57 minutes.

 

SCHOKLAND: A Special Search in Jersey by Christian Schunk, Zoppoter Strasse 14, 90766 Fuerth, Germany, June 2001.


 

CIOS (Jersey) Microfilms

 

National Archives of the United States

T77-787 OKW Supplies in the West 1944-45

T77-789 Supply of fortresses and Islands 1944-45

T78-318

T311-19 Minefields 1940-41

T312-580 AOK 15 and supplies for Channel Islands 1941

T312-512 AOK supplies July-December 1941

T312-1547

T321-44 Luftwaffe

 

T1022-2174

T1022-2175 June 1944

T1022-2176 Fu Mo reports

T1022-2252 24 MSF 1942-1944

T1022-2340 Czembre & Atlantic Fortresses

T1022-2363 Granville

T1022-2424 St Malo 2VP

T1022-2425 Hako Malo

T1022-2426 Channel Island Convoy Traffic

T1022-2427 Channel Island Convoy Traffic

T1022-2448

T1022-3129 32 MSF & 46 MSF 1943

T1022-3142 12 MSF 1940-1941

T1022-3143 12 MSF 1940-1941

T1022-3144 12 MSF 1940-1941

T1022-3188 46 MSF 1943

T1022-3205 18/23 MSF

T1022-3224 MSF 2VP 1944

T1022-3253 24 MSF 1944

T1022-3276 46 MSF 1943-1944

T1022-3973 Supply Flights

T1022-4008 Fortresses and Field post Numbers

T1022-4009

T1022-4032

T1022-4073
 

CIOS (Jersey) Book List

 

ACTE DES ETATS: 7 different orders 1940~1945, printed by J. T. Bigwood Ltd, Broad Street. (Donated 1979).

 

ADMIRALTY: B.R. 1938, Naval Ratings Handbook, 1951. Illustrated hardback. London: Naval Training Department, Admiralty, SW 1.

 

ADMIRALTY: B.R.827. A Seaman’s Pocket-Book, June 1943. Illustrated, card wrappers. Supplied for the Public Service. By Authority of the Commissioners of the Admiralty. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, reprinted June 1944. Price 1/3d.

 

AIR MINISTRY: Royal Air Force Pocket Book 1937. AP1081. Illustrated, cloth cover. Reprinted in India, July 1942. NWR Printing Press, Moghalpura 1942.

 

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HANDBOOK No.1: Personal Protection Against Gas (2nd Edition). London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1938. Price 6d. (2 copies the cover of one stamped “Air Raid Precaution Office, Royal Court House, Jersey”). (Donated in 1990).

 

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HANDBOOK No.2: First Aid and Nursing for Gas Casualties. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1938. Price 4d. (2 copies, the front of one stamped with oval hand stamp containing the word “Jersey”). (Donated in 1990).

 

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HANDBOOK No.4: Decontamination of Materials (1st Edition). London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1938. Price 6d. (2 copies, the cover of one stamped “Air Raid Precaution Office, Royal Court House, Jersey”). (Donated in 1990).

 

ARENDT, Dr. Max (et al): Reichshauptstadt Berlin. Illustrated hardback, German text. Berlin: Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung Max Paschke, 1943.

 

AUERBACH, Sonderführer Dr. Hans: Die Kanalinseln. Jersey-Guernsey-Sark. Herausgegeben in Auftrage Des Befehlshabers, Jersey 1942. (No map). Paris: Pariser Zeitung, 1942. (Donated in 1980).

 

AUFSESS, Frieherr v.u.z.: Ein Bilderbogen von der Kanalinseln. Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Feldkommandantur der Inseln. Jersey, im Mai 1943. (Signed by author). Two copies purchased by CIOS in 1978.

 

AUTOGRAPH BOOK: Kept by Margaret Ginns (née Bouchére) during the German Occupation and especially when she was a student nurse at the Jersey General Hospital, from August 1944 to May 1945. Apart from some personal items, this book contains the signatures of a crew member of HMS Beagle, Joe Jones; Theo Krausen, but added when he was ‘discovered’ at Batterie Lothringen, Noirmont, in 1982; Neweel Younggren – captured in his pyjamas by the Germans at Granville, 09.03.45; Armand Dubois – an American POW who was being treated for his wounds at the Jersey General Hospital in August 1944, having been captured at St Malo; Captain C. Hargreaves, No. 20 Civil Affairs Unit; Captain Nichol; John Anderson the UNRRA captured at Granville – note signature dated 9th May 1945.; Major Frank Sargent, RAOC, Force 135, during his visit to Jersey in 1980; Second Officer of the Vega; Squadron Leader ????, RAF College Cranwell, added 27.04.83; Philip Congdon, RAF, and Peter Holt, RAF, added 27.04.83; a run of signatures dated from Anniversary of Liberation May 1984; A. Jansson ? Captain of the Vega; Thomas Tait ex-US PC 564 revisited Alderney in December 1986 (not 1968); some German signatures from 1987 including Willi Hagedorn. Donated by Michael Ginns MBE January 2004.

 

AUTOGRAPH BOOK: Contains signatures of Admiral Sir William Pillar, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey; Commander Douglas Williams of HMS Beagle; Phil Lawrence with explanatory note; Ed Thomas ex-PC 564, captured at Granville March 1945; Peggy Alexander, widow of John Alexander, captured at Granville March 1945; Dr Darling, Dr Frank Keiller and Occupation nurse at the Jersey General Hospital; Germans (and their wives) who had served in jersey at one time or another and returned for the 1985 Liberation celebrations; George Haas; various others; Willi and Inge Hagedorn; Helmut Morzinietz, Mayor of Bad Wurzach, 1985; Father Anton Kiebele, head of the Catholic order at Schloss Wurzach; Frau Lamle who was 92 years old when she signed this page in 1985 – she ran a pub at the village of Albers, near Wurzach, and could clearly recall the Jersey Internees calling in at her pub during their weekly walks. Donated by Michael Ginns MBE, January 2004.

 

AUTOGRAPH BOOK: The legend inside the front cover reads, “Reconciliation reunion of American/German/British naval personnel who served in Channel Island Waters during the Second World War. Held on October 5th, 6th and 7th, 1987, Jersey. Donated by Michael Ginns MBE, January 2004.

 

BERNARDS: Uniforms, Badges and Intelligence Data etc. of the German Forces, No.24. Compiled by “Factus” for use of H.G. & Service Personnel. Illustrated. Paper wrappers. London: Bernards Ltd, The Grampians, W6. Price 2/-.

 

BESSENRODT, Hptm. Dr: Der Insel Alderney. Paper wrappers. German text with illustrations. Written German dedication on last page dated Jersey Mai 1945. Aufsaetze und Bilder Zusammengestellt von Hptm. Dr. Bessenrodt. Druck: Deutsche Guernsey-Zeitung, Februar 1944.

 

BISHOP, A.C. & LAUNERT, E: Geology in Jersey During the German Occupation. The Work of Walther Klüpfel, 1941-44. Société Jersiaise, extract from the Annual Bulletin 1977, Vol.22, part 1. p.51-60. The Jersey Museum, 9 Pier Road, St Helier, Jersey.

 

BLAMPIED, J: Names of persons, who, during the period of Occupation 1940 to 1945, either performed or gave their knowledge and skills to Variety Entertainment. (6 copies donated by J. Blampied in 1982).

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS REFUGEES COMMITTEE: Report on the Work of the Committee from its Formation to December 31st, 1940. Booklet. London: Channel Islands Refugees Committee, 34 Victoria Street, SW1.

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS REFUGEES COMMITTEE: Alderney Relief Committee. Report on the Work of the Two Committees for the Year 1942. Booklet. London: 20 Upper Grosvenor Street, W1.

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS REFUGEES COMMITTEE: Alderney Relief Committee. Report on the Work of the Two Committees for the Year 1943. London: 20 Upper Grosvenor Street, W1.

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS SOCIETY: The Channel Islands Monthly Review, Vol.8, No.4, 24 pages, April 1945. Journal of Channel Islands Refugees in Great Britain. England: The Stockport and District Channel Islands Society at Borough Chambers, 1 St Petersgate, Stockport. Price 4d.

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS SOCIETY: The Channel Islands Monthly Review. Donated April 1987 and some copies from Miss Croad.

Vol. 1, May to October 1941.

Vol. 2, 1 ~ 6, November 1941 to April 1942.

Vol. 3, 1 ~ 6, July 1942 to December 1942.

Vol. 4, 1 ~ 6, January 1943 to June 1943.

Vol. 5, 1 ~ 6, July 1943 to December 1943.

Vol. 6, 1 ~ 6, January 1944 to June 1944.

Vol. 7, 1 ~ 6, July 1944 to December 1944.

Vol. 8, 1 ~ 6, January 1945 to June 1945.

Vol. 9, 1 and 2, July and August 1945 (final publication).

 

CIOS (JERSEY): Occupation Society, Guernsey Press Cuttings and photographs. Album presented to the Jersey Branch of the CIOS on the 12th July, 1974.

 

CORTVRIEND, V.V: Isolated Island. Paperback. The Thrilling Story of the Nazi Invasion of Guernsey. London: Streamline Publications Limited, 105 Curtain Road, EC 2, 1960. Price 2/6d.

 

DELTA STANDARD REPORT: Preliminary Report on Channel Islands Occupation Bibliography. 109-page list. Delta: 1st February 1989.

 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR: States of Jersey, Department of Labour Report on Work during Four Years of the Occupation, July, 1940, to July, 1944. (Photocopy donated by J. Aubert in 1977).

DE ST CROIX, E.J. (JACK): Eight red scrapbooks compiled by Mr E. de St Croix during the German Occupation. These were not intended to be read as a history of the Occupation but rather how the events of that period affected the life of one man and his immediate family. The notes within reflect a personal opinion penned at the time and often under great difficulty and stress. Contents include personnel notes, aerial leaflets, Occupation ephemera, newspaper cuttings, two Organisation Todt armbands, 2 x 2/- Occupation notes, etc. Donated in August 1998.

1) July 1st 1940-December 30th 1940;

2) January 1st 1941-May 19th 1941;

3) May 20th 1941-December 3rd 1941;

4) December 5th 1941-July 28th 1942;

5) August 10th 1942-February 27th 1943;

6) March 6th 1943-September 1st 1943;

7) September 3rd 1943-May 12th 1944;

8) Essential Commodities.

 

DIARY ~ CALENDAR, 1940 (unused): Sold in aid of New Street Boy’s School, Jersey, Sports Fund. Picture of His Majesty, King George VI on the cover. Contains messages and broadcasts from the King, Prime Minister and MPs. Raistrick & Co. Ltd, 281 Leeds Road, Bradford. Price 2d.

 

DURAND, Ralph: Guernsey Under German Rule. Paperback. London: The Guernsey Society, August 1946.

 

EHRHARDT, J: Vormarsch im September. Illustrated hardback, German text. Germany: 1941.

 

EIN JAHR 5./153: Wacht am Kanal, Jersey, im Januar 1942 (One Year 5./153. Guarding the Channel, Jersey, January 1942). Illustrated, 30 page booklet, produced locally by Luftwaffe Flak Abteilung 153. Original copy and photocopy. (Original Deposited January 2005)

 

ELLINGTON, Ralph: The German Underground Hospital, 1942~1945. Illustrated 23-page booklet. Impress, February 1971. Price 35p.

 

FERNAUFKLARUNGSGRUPPE 123: Kriegs~Weihnachten 1940. Dienststelle L00461. Illustrated photocopy of the Luftwaffe Unit, 2 Staffel Aufklarungsgruppe (F) 123, (No.2 Wing Long Range Reconnaissance Group 123), 1940 Christmas Journal, which was stationed at Jersey Airport.

 

FIRST TOWER SCHOOL (Reminiscences of): A Century of Service 1901~2001. Contributions by former parents and pupils, past and present teachers. References to German Occupation and Liberation. Illustrated booklet. Jersey: First Tower School, 5th April 2001. Donated by John Aubert, April 2002.

 

FROSSARD CBE MA, Canon E.L: The German Occupation of Guernsey. Dean of Guernsey, 1945-1968 (Abridged). La Société Guernesiaise, Guille-Allès Library, Guernsey.

 

FLIEGER LERNEN!: Schul-, Übungs-, Reise- und Merzwecke-Flugzeuge. Zusammengestellt unter Mitwirkung des RLM.

 

GARNIER, Val Sherman: Medical History of the Hospitals During the Occupation of Jersey 1940-1945. September 1997.

 

GERMAN UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL (THE): The First Casualty. The German Underground Hospital and Jersey’s Occupation Experience. Jersey: Sanctuary Inns Limited, 1988.

 

GERMAN UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL (THE): Captive Island 1940 to 1945. Exhibition Guide. Event Communications Ltd, The Loft, The Clove Building, 4 Maguire Street, London, SE1 2NQ (2001).

 

GINNS, Michael: Grouville Common During the German Occupation. Extracted from the Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise, 1973, Vol.21, Part 1B, p.194-199. Jersey: The Museum, Pier Road, St Helier.

 

GINNS, Michael: Report on sites of German defensive structures in Jersey of military and architectural importance. Contains 73 pages with illustrations. July 1986.

 

GINNS, Michael: A Guide to Alderney’s German Fortifications. The Alderney Society and Museum, August 1981.

 

GINNS, Michael, & BRYANS, Peter: The German Fortifications of Jersey. Original manuscript and photographs. Published in booklet format in 1975.

 

GÖTZ, Karl: Brüder über dem Meer. Hardback, German text. Germany: Adolf Spemann, Stuttgart, 1942. Inside front cover bears the round hand stamp of SOLDATENHEIM II ST BRELADE’S/JERSEY. Bücher-Verz. Abt V   Nr 11 H.

 

GRANDIN, REG: Smiling Through, Jersey 1940-1945. “A Chuckle a Day Kept Depression at Bay. Paperback. Printed by The Evening Post, Jersey, December 1945.

 

GRIBBLE, Leonard: Coastal Commandos. Paperback. London: Digit Books, Brown Watson Ltd, The Grampians, W6. Price 2/-.

 

GUERNSEY (States of): Committee for the Control of Essential Commodities Report on Essential Supplies & Services during the Occupation of Guernsey by German Forces and the Work of the Committee, August 1945. Printed by the Guernsey Star and Gazette Company, Limited, Bordage Street.

 

GUERNSEY (States of): Forty-sixth Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the year 1944. Guernsey: 1946.

 

GUERNSEY (States of): Forty-seventh Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1945. Guernsey: 1946.

 

GUN-FUN: Sarnian Salvoes ~ Somerset Salvoes. Regimental magazines, My ~ December 1945, produced by 618 Regiment, Royal Artillery, 302 Infantry Brigade, Force 135, who were stationed in Guernsey. Two original magazines and one photocopy contained in a red ring binder. (Deposited January 2005)

 

HAUTLIEU SCHOOL: Local Economics Study Group, 1969-70. Living in Jersey in 1945. The Occupation ends ~ The Work of Reorganisation begins.

 

HIS MAJESTY’S STAIONERY OFFICE: Documents concerning German~Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939. Paper wrappers. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1939. Price 1/-.

 

KIPLING, Rudyard: The Fringes of the Fleet. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited St Martin’s Street, 1915. Price 6d.

 

KNÖTEL, Herbert & SIEG, Herbert: Handbuch der Uniformkunde. Illustrated hardback, German text. Hamburg: Von Diepenbroick-Grüter & Schulz, 1937. Donated by Mr. L. Hill, 1978.

 

KRIEGSFLUGZEUGE: Deutsche, italienische, britisch-amerikanische und sowjetische Kriegsfluzeuge. Zusammengestellt unter Mitwirkung des RLM. Stand Sommer 1942.

 

LEALE, Jurat John: Report of Five Years of German Occupation by Jurat John Leale President of the Controlling Committee States of Guernsey 1940~1945. Wednesday, May 23rd, 1945. Reprinted from the “Guernsey Evening Press”. (Photocopy donated by D. Adams from Dorset).

 

LE BROCQ, N. S: Jersey Looks Forward. With a Foreword by Harry Pollit. Published by the Communist Party, 16 King Street, London, WC2, 12th September 1946. Price 2/6d.

 

LE BRUN, Donald ~ Jersey Album

Jersey 1940~1945. Occupation & Liberation Stamps, First Day Covers, Red Cross Messages, and other items of interest contained in an old post card album. Donated to CIOS (Jersey) by A. Le Brun, December 2002.

Contents:

Philately:                50 Occupation Covers

                                33 Liberation Covers 1948

                                50 Assorted Covers

                                Various Occupation Stamps

                                37 Red Cross Letters

Ephemera:              Evening Post 29th June 1940

Evening Post 9th July 1940

Jersey Weekly Post liberation Supplement May & June 1945

Jersey Evening Post Supplement 8th May 1970

Jersey Evening Post cutting 7th May 1977

2 ‘Das Festungsblatt’ aerial leaflets both dated 20 Februar 1945

The Channel Islands Monthly Review. Vol. 9. No. 2. August 1945

Letter to President of the Committee of Agriculture, 9th October 1942

                                Ration Book (Child’s) 1953-1954 Jersey

                                6 German Occupation Requisition Orders

                                4 States of Jersey 6d notes

                                3 States of Jersey 1/- notes

1 States of Jersey 2/- note

Postcard – German Band Marching along Royal Parade, Jersey, 1940

JA – Jersey Airways Limited label

Ordnance Survey Map of Jersey Second Edition 1942 used by Liberation Troops in 1945, showing Mined and Fortified areas.

 

LE QUESNE, Dr W. J: Under the Swastika in Jersey (The experiences of a University Student). A hand written 127 page journal of 12 chapters. Dr Walter Le Quesne describes the events leading up to the German Occupation of the Channel Islands and the first six months of German Occupation, 14th June 1940 to 31st December 1940, from an undergraduate’s perspective. Red file containing a typed copy of the hand written manuscript (Deposited December 2005).

 

LE QUESNE, Dr W .J: Under the Swastika in Jersey. Hand written rough notes, 61 pages, for the above mentioned journal contained in a ‘News Cuttings’ album. Inserted into album are 19 pieces of scrap paper, which have also been used for making notes.

 

LE QUESNE, Dr W. J: Two albums containing ‘Evening Post’ newspaper cuttings from 19th June 1940 to 26th June 1945, compiled by Dr Walter Le Quesne. Several of the cuttings are out of chronological order.

 

Album 1: Titled ‘Press Cuttings relating to the German Occupation of Jersey’, from 19th June 1940 to 21st July 1944, 362 pages. The album is catalogue No. 32 of William Dibben & Sons, Ltd, Builder’s Merchants, Southampton, and the cuttings have been glued over the illustrations.

 

Album 2: ‘Evening Post Cuttings from 11th July 1944 to 26th June 1945. The album is a Works Ledger from a local garage. Only 38 of the 199 pages contain cuttings. The album contains 13 loose cuttings and a two page typed report, ‘Excerpts from States Memorandum to German Authorities’ dated 26th August 1944.

 

LETTS: Rough Diary for 1940. Contains hand written details of farming in Jersey during the Occupation and has been extended to cover 1941 and some of 1942.

 

LEUTWEIN, Dr. Paul: Das deutsche Africa und seine zukunst. Illustrated hardback, German text. Berlin: C. U. Weller, Berlagsbuchhandlung, 1937. Title page bears a hand stamp, Vereinnachmt Bücherie der Luftkriegsschule Berlin- Gatow E.Nr. 3321/St.Nr. W.915.

 

LEWISHAM CHANNEL ISLANDS SOCIETY: Minutes Book of the Lewisham Channel Islands Society March 1943 ~ September 1944.

 

LIBERATION DAY CAVALCADE COMMITTEE: Liberation Cavalcade, Guernsey, 1945~1975. Souvenir Programme. Price 10p.

 

LISTE DES CONTRIBUALES AU RÂT: De la Paroisse de St Brelade par l’Anne 1943. Printed by Filleul et Queen, Imprimeurs, 14 New Street, Jersey. (Donated by J. Aubert 1983).

 

LONDON: Militärgeographische Angaben über England. Generalstab des Herres. Abteilung für Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen (IV.Mil.-Geo.) Berlin 1940. (Donated in 1983).

 

MARQUIS DE SLADE: Yeomen of Valhalla. First Series: Behind the Siegfried Line Volume 1. Germany: Published privately in Mannheim.

 

MARQUIS DE SLADE: The Frustrated Axis. Germany: Published privately in Witten.

 

MAUGHAM, R.C.F: Jersey Under the Jackboot. Paperback. London: W.H. Allen, 10th Edition 1960. Price 5/-.

 

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION: Front Line 1940~41. The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain. Illustrated. Paper wrappers. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1942.

 

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION: By Air to Battle. The Official Account of the British First and Sixth Airborne Divisions. Illustrated paperback. London: His Majesty’s Stationery, 1945. (Torn Cover)

 

MUSEUM (THE): Pier Road, Jersey, C.I. Articles of Surrender signed by Major General Heine of the German Forces and Brigadier Snow of the British Forces in HMS Bulldog off St Peter Port Guernsey, 9th May 1945. Extracted from the Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise, 1959. Vol.17, part III, pages 243-253.

 

NAVAL STAFF INTELLIGENCE DIVISION: Merchant Ships Identification. NID 02148/41. BR115. Illustrated hardback. 1941.

 

OBERKOMMANDOS DER WEHRMACHT: Landwirt-schaftlicher Grundlehrgang. 1. Teil. Soldatenbrief zur Berufsförgerung ausgabe C: Landwirtschaftliche Lehrgänge nur für den Gerbrauch innerhalb der Wehrmacht. German Army illustrated educational paperback book. Copyright 1941 by Ferdinand Hirt in Breslau. First page has eagle and swastika and Einheit Feldpostnummer 30662 round purple hand stamp (1st Company Pz Jg Abt 225 – Anti-Tank Gun Company stationed in Guernsey). (Deposited December 2005)

 

OCCUPATION RESOURCE ‘85: An Educational Resource on the German Occupation of Jersey, prepared by Martyn Brown, Jean Le Boutillier and John Renouf. Box file containing the following files: Introduction; A: Food, Clothing and everyday needs; A 1.3: Superior Council; B: Social Life; C: School and Work; D: Restrictions 1 ~ 3; D: Restrictions 4 ~ 7; E: Fortifications; F: Events; G: Transport; Miscellaneous Items. Joint Jersey Museums/In-service Education venture, 1985.

 

OCCUPATION (THE): A JPL Book List. The Second World War in Jersey (and other Channel Islands). A Local History Book List. Jersey: Designed & Printed for Jersey Public Libraries by States Greffe. (Donated by J. Aubert 1977.

 

PANZER ABTEILUNG 213: Weihnachts-Zeitl 1944. Der Einheit Feldp.Nr 47113. Original hand typed and illustrated, 30 page, Christmas journal of Tank Company 123 stationed in the Channel Islands. This copy was originally obtained from Guernsey in 1978. Copy of German Armour in the Channel Islands 1941 ~ 1945, CIOS Archive Book 4. All contained in a red ring binder. (Deposited January 2005)

 

PERRIN, W. Bro. Dennis G. (PAGDC): The Sacking of the Masonic Temple in Jersey by the Nazis in 1941. January 1991. Price £2.50.

 

PERRIN, Dennis G: 50th Anniversary in Jersey (article re: The Sacking of the Masonic Temple in Jersey by the Nazis in 1941). Masonic SQUARE The Magazine for Freemasons Everywhere, June 1991, p.95-99. Price £1.75.

 

REGISTRE D’IMMATRICULATION: Consulat de France a Jersey. Register III (Audouin-Jaffré) of French Nationals residing in Jersey, 1946. Contains a photograph of the person and details of name, local address, date of residence, date & place of birth, etc.

 

REY, Charles: The Observatory; Maison Saint Louis. Extracted from the Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise, 1960. Vol.17, part 4, p.313~320. Jersey: The Museum Pier Road.

 

ROBINSON, W. P. A: The Gardener-Smallholder for Profit. England: W. P. A. Robinson, Aveton-Gifford, S. Devon, 1946. Price 5/-. Signed by author “WPA Robinson, Lt-Colonel RA, Island Commander, Jersey, May 9th to Aug 3rd, 1945”. (Donated by A. Allix, 1983).

 

RUSSELL, Sam (special correspondent of the Daily Worker): Spotlight on the Channel Islands London: Daily Worker League, 324 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1. Price 6d.

 

HOFFMANN, E. T. A: Meister Martin der Küfner und seine Gesellen. Hardback book published by Rütten & Loening Verlag Potsdam. Ink inscription on first page, “ Kriegsweihnachten 1943 Jersey 2. Kompanie”. (Deposited December 2005)

 

SINEL, Leslie: The German Occupation of Jersey, 1940~1945. A complete diary of events from June 1940 to June 1945. Paperback. Printed and published at “The Evening Post”, Jersey. November, 1945.

 

SINEL, Leslie: Swastika Over Jersey. An outline of the German Occupation and the Liberation of the Island. Guernsey: The Guernsey Press Company, Limited, April 1958.

 

SINEL, Leslie: Croix Gammee sur Jersey. Un résumé de l’Occupation Allemande et de la Libération de l’île. Traduit de l’anglais par Michel Jeanne. (Donated in 1990).

 

SOLDATENHEIM ST BRELADE’S: Colour photocopy of the German Soldatenheim II (Soldiers’ Home) guest book, which was situated at the St Brelade’s Bay Hotel. (See CIOS Review No.25, p.12~24).

 

SOLDATEN SINGEN: Marsch~und Soldaten~Liederbuch. German songbook, 78 pages.

 

SPALECK, Martin (Capt): Description of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goerings yacht “Carin II” (with photographs) when she offered for sale in May 1979.

 

STEVENSON, David Stuart: Memories of a Time and Journey. 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Channel Islanders from a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany 1942-1945.

 

STOCK, F: Die Bretagne ein Erlebnis. Alsatia 1943. Illustrated. Text in German. Inscription in Front of Book reads “Der Stabszug beim Hafenkommandanten Jersey gratuliert dem Matr.Ob.Gefr. Wilhelm Lorda zu seinem heutigen Geburtstage. Oberleutnant und Stabszugführer. Jersey, den 3.Okt 1944”. This book and the postcard inside were Liberated from the Pomme d’Or Hotel at the Weighbridge on 9th May 1945. The Liberator was Lieutenant Leslie Jackson, RNVR, Senior Officer Minesweepers, who brought the HM MMS 250 into St Helier harbour on Liberation Day 1945.

 

STROOBANT, Frank: One Man’s War. Illustrated paperback. Channel Islands: Guernsey Press Co. Ltd, 1967.

 

VAGTS, Alfred (Dr): Hitler’s Second Army. Illustrated paperback. Washington D.C: The Infantry Journal, 1943.

 

WAR DEPARTMENT: German 88 mm Anti-Aircraft Gun Material, Technical Manual, 29 June 1943. TM E9-369A. Illustrated paperback. Washington: War Department.

 

WAR OFFICE: Instructions for Armourers 1931, Supplement No.2. Guns, Machine, Bren, .303-IN., Mark I. Mountings, Tripod, Bren .303 IN., MG, Mark I, and accessories. Reprinted with Amendments (Nos. 1 and 2) and (No.3) promulgated in ACI 1602 of 1940. Paperback with fold out diagrams.

 

WAR OFFICE: Periodical Notes on the German Army No.19 (Based on information received up to 2nd June, 1940).

 

WAR OFFICE: Periodical Notes on the German Army No.21 (Based on information received up to 31st May, 1940).

 

WAR OFFICE: Periodical Notes on the German Army No.22 (Based on information received up to 15th June, 1940).

 

WAR OFFICE: The German Army in Pictures. Prepared by General Staff, War Office, January 1941.

 

WATCHMAN (pseudonym): A Jersey Country Parish During the Time of Occupation. Oxford: The Church Army Press, Cowley.

 

WIEDERMEYER, Gerhard: Gibralter. Zwingburg im Mittelmeer. Illustrated 48 page booklet, German text. Berlin: Verlag Karl Curtius, 1941.

 

WINNIG, Augst: Stiegel der Holzhauer. Illustrated, 106 page booklet. Leipzig: Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun. 1943.

 

WOLFF, Dr. Paul: Skikamerad Toni. Illustrated hardback, German text. Frankfurt A.M: H. Bechhold Verlagsbuchhandlung (Inh. Breidenstein), 1936.

 

WULF, Rudolf (Generalmajor): Die englischen Garnisonen auf Jersey. Hand made illustrated presentation book with dust sleeve. Inscription reads “Kommandeur Gren. Regt 582 Oberst Prahl zum Abscheid aus der Festung Jersey alle guten Wünsche!” and signed “Wulf Generalmajor und Kommandeur der 319 Inf. Div, 4. April 1945.

 

WYATT, Horace: Jersey in Jail 1940~45. Pictures by Edmund Blampied. Special edition No.702 of only 750 copies. Signed by the author and the artist. Jersey: Ernest Huelin. Printed in England by Alba Press Ltd, 80 Fleet Street, London EC4.


 

German Occupation Newspapers

Evening Post Collection

Contains a large number of “EPs” from the following years:- 1940, 1941, 1942 (some in albums and some laminated), 1943, 1944 and 1945.

 

Jersey Weekly Post Liberation Supplement and Souvenir of the Royal Visit, May and June 1945. (2 copies).

 

Jersey Evening Post, 8th May, 1970: A supplement to commemorate the silver jubilee of the island’s liberation from Nazi occupation. May 9th 1945 and back they came.

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

DEUTSCHE INSELZEITUNG: Jersey Mittwoch, 13 Mai, 1942, jahrgang 2. Nr.204.

 

EVENING POST: Jersey, Tuesday, January 15th, 1942. Donated by Harry Aubin, Jersey.

 

EVENING POST: 28 copies from 1943 and 1944.

 

EVENING POST: Jersey, Friday, 11th May, 1945, and cuttings regarding Occupation of Channel Islands. Donated by Mr. A. Jackson, Stanmore, Middlesex.

 

EVENING POST cuttings mounted on cardboard from 1940 editions.

EVENING POST cuttings mounted on cardboard from June 1940 editions.

EVENING POST cuttings mounted on cardboard from 1941 editions.

EVENING POST cuttings mounted on cardboard from 1942 editions..

EVENING POST cuttings mounted on cardboard from 1943 editions.

EVENING POST cuttings mounted on cardboard from 1944 editions.

EVENING POST cuttings mounted on cardboard from 1945 editions.

 

EVENING POST a number of pre and post war editions.

 

FRENCH: 28 War Time newspapers.

 

GUERNSEY NEWSPAPERS: The Star 15th June 1943; Guernsey Evening Press 16th June 1943, Guernsey Weekly Press 15th May 1945.

 

JERSEY EVENING POST: 9 ring binder files containing articles regarding the Occupation and Liberation period of the Channel Islands.

1) 1971 ~ 1976.

2) 1976 ~ 1979.

3) 1979 ~ 1983.

4) 1984 ~ 1985.

5) 1985 ~ 1989.

6) 1990 ~ 1991.

7) 1992 ~ 1993 January to July

8) 1993 August to September ~ 1994.

9) 1995 part May ~ December 1996.

 

NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS: War Time and Post War (some laminated).

 

NEWSPAPER and MAGAZINE articles (modern) regarding Occupation of the Channel Islands.

 

German Magazines sold in Jersey during the

German Occupation

 

(E) = English edition, (F) = French edition, (G) = German edition.

 

Der Adler (German Air Force publication)

1940, December 17th, No.25, (G).

1941, February 25th, No.4, (G).

1941, March 11th, No.5, (G).

1941, September 23rd, No.19, (G).

1941, November 18th, No.18, (G).

1942, January 13th, No.13, (G).

1942, March 10th, No.5, (G).

1942, April 21st, No.8, (G).

1942, June 30th, No.13, (F).

1942, October 6th, No.20, (F).

1942, December 1st, No.24, (F).

1942, December 29th, No.26, (F).

1943, January 12th, No.1, (F).

1943, June 29th, No.13, (G).

1943, August 10th, No.16, (F).

1943, August 24th, No.17, (F).

1943, November 30th, No.24, (F).

1944, February 22nd, No.4, (F).

1944, March 21st, No.6, (F).

1944, April 4th, No.7, (F).

1944, April 18th, No.8, (F).

 

 

Die Kriegsmarine (German Navy Magazine)

1941, September, No.23, (G).

1941, December, 1941, No.18, (G).

 

 

Die Wehrmacht (German Army Magazine)

1940, November 20th, (G).

1942, March 4th, (G).

1942, April 15th, (G).

1943, March 17th, (G).

1943, August 4th, (G).

1943, August 18th, (G).

1943, October 13th, (G).

 

Signal (a bi-weekly publication by Deutscher Verlag, Berlin)

1940, Second November Number, No.16, (F). Donated by Dr W. Le Quesne March 2003.

 

1941, First January Number, No.1, (F).

1941, Second January Number, No.2, (E).

1941, Second February Number, No.4, (E).

1941, Second March Number, No.6, (E).

1941, First April Number, No.7, (E).

1941, Second May Number, No.10, (E).

1941, Second June Number, No.12, (E).

1941, First July Number, No.13, (E).

1941, First August Number, No.15 (E). Donated by Dr W. Le Quesne March 2003

1941, Second August Number, No. 16, (E).

1941, First September Number, No.17, (E).

1941, Second September Number, No.18, (E).

1941, First October Number, No.19, (E).

1941, Second October Number, No.20, (E).

1941, First November Number, No.21, (E).

1941, Second November Number, No.22, (E).

1941, Special December, No.23/24, (E).

 

1942, First January Number, No.1, (E).

1942, First February Number, No.3, (E).

1942, Second March Number, No.6, (E).

1942, First April Number, No.7, (E).

1942, First May Number, No.9, (E).

1942, First June Number, No.11, (E).

1942, Second June Number, No.12, (E).

1942, First July Number, No.13, (E).

1942, First August Number, No.15, (E).

1942, First September Number, No.17, (E).

1942, Second September Number, No.18, (E).

1942, First October Number, No.19, (E).

1942, Second October Number, No.20, (E).

1942, Second November Number, No.22, (E).

1942, Special December Number, No.23/24, (E).

 

1943, First January Number, No.1, (E).

1943, First February Number, No.3, (E).

1943, Second February Number, No.4, (E).

1943, First March Number, No.5, (E).

1943, First April Number, No.7, (E).

1943, Second April Number, No.8, (E).

1943, Second May Number, No.10, (E).

1943, First June Number, No.11, (E).

1943, First July Number, No.13, (E).

1943, Second July Number, No.14, (E).

1943, Second August Number, No.16, (E).

1943, Second September Number, No.18, (E).

1943, First October Number, No.19, (E).

1943, First November Number, No.21, (E).

1943, Second November Number, No.22, (E).

1943, First December Number, No.23, (F).

1943, Special Eastern Territories Number, No.24, (E).

 

1944, No.1, (E).

1944, No.2, (E).

1944, No.4, (F).

1944, No.5, (F).

1944, No.7, (F).

1944, No.8, (F).

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, 28th November 1940, No.48, (G).

Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, 10th July, 1941, No.28, (G).

Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, 25th June, 1942, No.25, (G) (article on Jersey p.366).

 

Hamburger Illustrierte, 18th April, 1942, No.16, (G).

 

J B Illustrierte Beobachter, 17th April, 1941, No.16, (G).

 

Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung, 29th May, 1941, No.22, (G).

 

Templelburger Stadt-und Laudbote newspaper, 20th June 1943, (G).

 


 

CIOS (Jersey) Archive

Folders

 

ALEXANDER, J. V: Welfare Officer UNRA. Report of his capture at Granville and related items.

 

ANIMALS SHELTER: 12 typed pages, with amendments, of memories of the Jersey Animals’ Shelter during the German Occupation. Illustrated booklet Jersey Animals’ Shelter. The Work of the Animals’ Shelter During the Occupation of the Channel Islands, by Harold Stephens, 1968. Printed 1995.

 

ANGLO-GERMAN Reconciliation. October 1987.

 

ARNOLD, Colonel B.E (Royal Artillery): The Alderney Story. Operation “Blazing”, Allied plan to attack Alderney in May 1942.

 

ASHLEY HOUSE, Five Oaks, Jersey. Letter commenced 26th December 1941 and completed on 21st May 1945 by the occupier describing the German Occupation of Jersey. Donated by Mrs M. Backhurst, Hilgrove Books.

 

ATLANTIC WALL (THE): Testament to the Third Reich. A study of the German Defences of the Atlantic Coast during 1941-1944. A dissertation submitted by Christopher Philip Ralphs for Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) The Mackintosh School of Architecture Glasgow University, April, 1994.

 

BEFEHLSHABER KANAL ~ INSELN: Notes on German Units Stationed in the Channel Islands and map tracings. Found amongst the papers of K. J. Nowlan, 1992. On loan to CIOS from Brian Read.

 

BEHIND WIRE: Unpublished 149 page memoirs of his deportation and internment at Biberach 1942~1945 by Mike Shepherd. (Deposited January 2005)

 

BLACKLER, Robert (Lieutenant): American POW in Jersey.

 

BRITISH & AMERICAN POWs in Jersey compiled by Margaret Ginns (2 folders).

 

BRITISH PATRIOT Leaflets, Jersey.

 

CAPSTICK, Constance: The Occupation of Jersey. Occupation memoirs of Mrs Capstick, manageress of the Grouville Hall (now Grouville Bay) Hotel during the war, dated 15th June 1956.

 

CASQUETS RAID Operation “Dryad”: CSM Winter MM. Report donated by F. C. Goodley, Trinity House, 1984.

 

CHARPENTIER, Dr. A. E. L: Occupation reminiscences and personal paper work.

 

CHARTER OF FRIENDSHIP between the people of the Channel Islands and the German people, 1976.

 

CHASSE DE LA LIBERATION. Jersey Old Motor Club, 6th August 1995.

 

CIOS (Jersey) Archives: Lists of items deposited with the Jersey CIOS Archive. CIOS (Jersey): Correspondence 1995.

 

CIOS (Jersey): Newsletters from January to September 1975.

 

CIOS (Jersey): Hon. Secretaries Annual Reports from 1978. Fixture Lists from 1975.Other material related to Guernsey.

 

CIOS (Jersey): Scrapbook of Society Events from 1973 to 1976 compiled by Robin Cox. (Deposited January 2005)

 

CIOS (Jersey): Scrapbook of Society Events from 1976 to 1978 compiled by Robin Cox (Deposited December 2005)

 

CLARK, Edward (Captain): American POW in Jersey.

 

COAKER, F. W. J: Some of my experiences during World War 1939 ~ 1945. Donated by Mrs Joyce Lake, Exeter.

 

COURT MARTIAL DOCUMENTS and PERMITS (photocopies). Donated by Mark Lamerton 1982.

 

“DAISY MAE SCRAGGS” MEMORIAL: B24-J American Liberator crashed on Chausey June 1944. See Occupation Review No.23, 1995, p.89~92.

 

DIE PAROLE DER WOCHE: Ausgabe A. Folge 25. Partieamtliche Wandzeitung der NSDAP. Herausgegeben von der Reichspropagaleitung der NSDAP. München. 18. Juni 1941. Anti Churchill/British poster, approximately 2.5 foot x 3.5 foot.

 

DEDELSTORFER WOCHENBLATT: Newspaper of the 135 Wing RAF, 22nd August 1945 (photocopy). Contains article on “The Channel Islands ~ After the Germans”.

 

DRÄGER AIR FILTERS: Correspondence, line drawings and factory catalogues. Donated by Joe Mière.

 

DUBRAS (Leon) Collection: Documents and correspondence regarding Algerian & North African POWs in Jersey. See CIOS (Jersey) 1985 Review, French North African Prisoners of War in Jersey, by Margaret Ginns, p.50~70.

 

ESCAPES from Occupied Jersey, 1940~45: Newspaper cuttings and photocopies.

 

FELDERRNHALLE, München, period print.

 

FELDKOMMANDANTUR 515 & ORGANISATION TODT: Two folders containing photocopies of 1940-1945 correspondence (some with English translation) concerning land requisition for fortifications, railways, etc. (Deposited December 2005)

 

FESTUNG JERSEY 1940-~1945: Research and notes compiled by Robin Cox. (Deposited January 2005)

 

FK515, FIELDPOST NUMBERS & MANUFACTURER’S CODES: Research and notes compiled by Robin Cox. (Deposited January 2005)

 

FRENCH NORTH AFRICAN POWs in Jersey. Margaret Ginns. (Article appeared in the 1985 CIOS (Jersey) Review).

 

GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS: Eleven sketches of German Fortifications in Jersey by Anthony Goodlad dated 1977~1978. (Deposited January 2005)

 

GERMAN UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL (THE): ? 1950’s Illustrated 10 page Guide Booklet with colour picture on front cover and black and white booklet.

 

GINNS, Michael: Do They Ever Come Back? Part I ~ Herr Curt Wolperding; Part II ~Herr Georg Brefka; Part III ~ Herr Siegfried Köhler. The original articles appeared in the CIOS Review, 1983, 1998 and 1991 respectively, but were enlarged to poster size for a display at the German Underground Hospital (3 items).

 

GRIER, Karl: Collection of correspondence and permits (photocopies) published in CIOS Review 1981.

 

HAGEDORN, Willi: Transcript of a talk he gave at the Old Government House Hotel, Guernsey, in 1984. German signals officer who served in Guernsey during the Occupation.

 

HANNE, Justice: Letter from the Hon. Mr. Justice Hanne, Dublin, concerning the Occupation of the Channel Islands.

 

HARDTACK: Extract account (copy of) of the Report made on Operation Hardtack28. 1943. Carried out on 25/26 Dec. (5 pages)

 

HEERES-KUSTEN-BATTERIE 9/1265. Memoirs of a former German Gunner. Photocopy in German.

 

HORN, C. E: Bespoke Tailor and Clothier, 3 New Street, Jersey. Diary of events for 14-5-40, 18-6-40, 23-6-40 and 10-5-45 (photocopies).

 

IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISION (THE): Civilian War Dead in The United Kingdom (mentions Channel Islands). Photocopy. Volume VI, p.2605~2607. 1955. Donated by C. Rushworth, 1990.

 

INDIA: Assorted newsletters from the Channel Islands Society, All India Branch, 1945. Donated by Charles Wackett Evans, 1985.

 

INDICTMENT: A Poem written in June 1944 by Winter Le Brocq and illustrated by Edmund Blampied. First and only edition Jersey 1944. Printed by J.T. Bigwood Ltd. and published by A. Michael Frowd.

 

ISLANDERS NEWS: Issued by the ME Channel Islands Society, RASC Base Depot and Training Centre, MEF. No.13, May 1945 (3 pages).

 

JERSEY UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION: Seven page typed document prepared from a verbal account given by Mr Denis Vibert who arrived in England late in September 1941, having escaped from Jersey. Donated by Roger Jones, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, 27th September 2001.

 

JERSEY UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION (report 2 copies) and A Few Authentic Facts Relating to the island, obtained from Mr. V. Senr. dated 3rd November 1941. Donated 1987.

 

KERNWERK: Battle Headquarters St Peter Jersey. Paper room identification signs taken from the doors of one of the bunkers at Battle HQ e.g. Kampfraum, Vermittlung, Entluftungs-Raum, Adj., Ord. Offrs., ?zun Kd, Funk Raum = Radio Room (6 items).

 

KREBS, Joseph (Lt-Col): American POW in Jersey. Related correspondence and photographs. See “Belza” and the Mustang pilot CIOS Review 1986.

 

LEE, Cyrus: The Soldat Guide to European Military Battlefields and Museums. Appendix II of Soldat, Volume 1. References to Channel Islands. Photocopy. Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Ltd, Missoula, 5981, 1988.

 

LE BROCQ, Norman: Founder member of the Jersey Communist Party, and former Deputy of the States of Jersey. Text of an address to the Channel Islands Occupation Society about his Occupation experiences, 4th April 1988.

 

LE QUESNE, E: Memoirs. Jersey Evening Post 1982.

 

LIBERATION DAY Programmes. States of Jersey Occupation & Liberation Committee. For May 1989, 1990 & 1991.

 

LIBERATION DAY 1985: Souvenir Programme and Jersey Evening Post Supplement. Soviet Weekly 4th May 1985.

 

MARINE ARTILLERIE ABTEILUNG (MAA) 604: List of personnel (photocopy) donated by D. Holmes, 1983.

 

MILITARY GEOLOGY Paper. Donated by Dr E. Rose, Department of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, 13th December 1999.

 

MILITARY MUSEUMS: Pamphlets, Guide Books, etc.

 

MINEFIELDS: Photocopy of Minefield at Chestnut Farm, Mont a L’Abbé, Jersey. Donated by D. O’Connor, 1978.

 

MINEFIELDS: Photocopies of Jersey Minefield Map and newspaper cuttings. Donated by Johannes Kegelmann, 1984.

 

OCCUPATION of the Channel Islands: Militär wissenschastliche Kundschau ~ Individual Reports from the War at The Western Front, 1940. 11) Surprise Attack Against the British Channel Islands on July 1st (photocopy with English translation).

 

PHARMACY: Wartime Pharmacy by Pamela Mason, BSc, PhD, MRPharmS. The Pharmaceutical Journal, Vol. 254, 6th May 1995.

 

POLICE OCCUPATION PERMITS (photocopies), donated by Miss J. Jacklin. Permits (photocopies) donated by David Le Maistre, 1997.

 

POWER STATION (2 folders): German power station near Tesson Mill, St Peter’s Valley, built by the Organisation Todt during the Occupation. Folder 1: One original German map of Jersey dated 1941 showing the run of the electricity cable; two original blue prints of the German Power Station, dated 1942 & 1943, drawn by Société Française des Constructions Babcock and Wilcox, Paris; 1945 photograph of the Power Station. Folder 2: notes and post-war correspondence compiled by Robin Cox regarding the Power Station. (Deposited December 2005)

 

POSTERS x 4: German/French forbidding circulation of propaganda plus 3 others. Donated by E. Hassel, 1981.

 

POST OFFICE: Occupation Recollections of the Post Office, 1938 to 1962, from Stuart Charles Guilliard.

 

POWELL, Colin: Banking During the Occupation. Donated 1994.

 

RED CROSS Research donated by Joe Mière. (2 folders).

 

REQUISTITIONED ITEMS: Ledger (Transfer Book) of requisitioned household items by the German Forces 1941~1945. Gives details of the property, goods requisitioned, owner, administrator and destination. (Deposited January 2005)

 

REQUSITION OF LAND AND BUILDINGS: Photocopies of German documents concerning the requisition of land by the German Forces (25 items); list of land taken over by the German authorities in St Brelade, Grouville, St Helier, St Lawrence, St Martin, St Mary, St Ouen, St Peter, St Saviour and Trinity (16 pages); list of houses, petrol pumps, garages, stables, huts, stores, shops, hotels requisitioned by the German Forces in the Parish of St Helier (26 pages); list of houses, bungalows, huts, sheds, hotels, shops and Cafes requisitioned by the German Forces in the Parish of St Clement (7 pages). Photocopies of correspondence between Feldkommandantur 515 and the Jersey Gas Light Company Ltd. Concerning Langford House, which was adjacent to College House (now JCG) prior to demolition (6 pages).  (Deposited December 2005)

 

REYBOLD, John Black (Colonel): American POW in Jersey.

 

RUSSIANS in the Channel Islands during the German Occupation.

 

SCHMETTOW, General Graf von: Report by the Former German Commander of the Channel Islands dated April 1948. The Channel Islands: Preparation of the defence against the invasion and during the invasion till the surrender. (Deposited December 2005)

 

SCHMETTOW, General Graf von: Former German Kommandant re-visits Jersey. Graf von Schmettow on holiday with his family. Newspaper cuttings regarding the visit, Jersey Evening Post, Friday, September 6th, 1963 (photocopies).

 

SCUTTLEBUTT. USS PC564 and photographs. Articles on the Granville Raid. SS Leopoldville.

 

U-BOAT 275 VISITS GUERNSEY: Typed article by John Wallbridge, which appeared in the 1981 Channel Islands Occupation Society Review, describing the eventful visit of U-275 to Guernsey on 13th June 1944. Seven pages, one illustration and one letter, the photographs have been removed. (Deposited January 2005)

 

UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL JERSEY: Cartoon by Anson 4th December 1961, “Is there a Doctor in the House?”.

 

VERORDNUNGSBLATT: 2 x German Orders published in Paris. German/French text, July 1940.

 

WARSHIPS: Recognise the Smaller German Warships S.1564 poster, September 1944.

 

X-RAY Machine Instruction Manual (German). Donated by Dr Gruchy, 1982.

 

YECK, Mike: Mike Yeck returns from historic Normandy trip, June 1994 (newspaper cuttings).

 


 

CIOS (JERSEY) Archive

Maps

 

ALDERNEY: 1:10,560 or six inches to one mile. Derived from O.S. map of 1911. Revised from Air Photographs 1943. Drawn and reproduced by Home Forces 1943. Shows pre 1940 buildings and hutments of recent construction. Used by Liberation troops, Force 135.

 

ALDERNEY: Detailing position of forts and German fortifications (laminated).

 

CAEN-CHARTRES Zusammendruck. Der Kanal 1:250 000. 1940.

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS: (Sark, Herm and Jethou) Second Edition. Scale 1:12,500 approximately 5 inches to 1 mile. Drawn and produced by Home Forces 1943 ( 3 items one laminated).

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS: Ranges of Principle Coastal Artillery Batteries in the Channel Islands as emplaced from September 1944 onwards (laminated).

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS and Adjacent Coast of France No.2669, September 1980.

 

CHANNEL ISLANDS: Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney showing details of Organisation Todt (OT) Headquarters and workers camps (3 items).

 

ELIZABETH CASTLE: States Engineer, Drawing No.376A, 20th December 1957.

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN und der Nordsee-raum (12.5 inch x 9 inch).

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN 1:250 000: The Border, Blatt Nr.1, 1935.

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN 1:250 000: Nördliches Zentralgebiet, Blatt Nr.2, 1935 (2

items).

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN 1:250 000: Glasgow und Mittleter Westen, Blatt Nr.4, 1936

(2 items).

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN 1:250 000: Nord Wales u. Manchester, Blatt Nr.4, 1935 (2

items).

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN 1:250 000: Nord Midlands, Blatt Nr.6, 1935.

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN 1:250 000: Midlands, Blatt Nr.8, 1935.

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN 1:250 000: Ost Anglia Nr.9, 1935 (2 items).

 

GROSS-BRITANNIEN 1:250 000: Süd-England, Blatt Nr.11, 1934.

 

FRANCE: 1:25000. Defences Ryes. Information as at May 1944 Sheet No.37/18 SW. Compiled from Air Photographs on a control provided by existing French Triangulation. Defence Legend on reverse (laminated).

 

FRANCE: 1:25000. Defences Arromanches-Les-Bain. Information as at May 1944 Sheet No.82. Compiled from Air Photographs on a control provided by existing French Triangulation. Defence Legend on reverse (laminated).

 

GUERNSEY: Strongpoint ‘Talfeste’ Vale Castle (491098). Not to scale. 6th August 1944. Royal Engineers January 1945 (laminated).

 

GUERNSEY: Trace A L’Ancresse Bay and St Sampson’s, Trace B St Peter Port. Scale six inches to one statute mile. These defences are a supplement to the defence overprint maps of Guernsey 1945 (laminated).

 

JERSEY: Artillerie ~ Einsatz. Details and locations of German Artillery Batteries in Jersey (laminated).

 

JERSEY (16 inch x 12 inch) map found in the Mayfair Hotel, St Helier, by Mr. G. Woodhall, which was Soldatenheim I during the German Occupation. Marked on the map in red ink are details of convoys to and from St Helier Harbour and also the three Soldatenheim. Donated by Mark Lamerton, 1982.

 

JERSEY: Ordnance Survey Map second edition. Scale Two Inches to one Statute Mile. Regridded and printed O.S. 1942. Used by Liberation Forces and shows details of the German Casualty Clearing Stations (Truppenverbandplätze) in the island. These were situated in a number of large country houses and each one was codenamed after a major German City. (Deposited January 2005)

 

JERSEY: Ordnance Survey Map showing details of German defences in the island 1941. OS 1934 (photocopy).

 

JERSEY: Ordnance Survey Map Second Edition. Regridded and printed OS 1942. Used by Liberation Forces and shows details of defences around St Brelade’s and St Aubin’s Bays.

 

JERSEY: Ordnance Survey Map third Edition. Secret ~ Enemy Defences Information as at 12th August 1944. Legend: See reverse. G-2 (Int) Div. SHAEF. Two inches to one statute mile (laminated).

 

JERSEY: 1:50 000. 2 Ausgabe (August 1941). Gitter Lambert 1 Zone Nord.

 

JERSEY: German map of Jersey 1:25000 dated October 1942. The map has been used by the Liberation Troops, Royal Engineers, who have added the location of Anti-Air Landing Obstacles erected by the German Forces in the island. The island has been divided into three Areas and details of the Platoon responsible for clearance in each of these has been added. Each field of Obstacles on the map has been given a number and the field boundary is colour coded to highlight the extent of clearance carried out. A Legend has been added to the right hand side of the map.

To the bottom right hand corner of the map the following has been added: -

Major. R.E.                                                                                            Drawing No:

259 Field Coy. R.E.                                                                               R.E. 3

May. 1945.                                                                                             23. May. 1945

                                                                                                                B. Snook L/Cpl R.E.

The map belonged to Donald Le Brun and was donated by A. Le Brun, December 2002.

 

JERSEY: Scale 1:31,680 or two inches to 1 mile. Outline of Jersey with major routes marked. These maps were used with defence overprints issued to specific units to complete their individual objectives, 5th May 1945 (4 items one laminated).

 

JERSEY: Transparent Index map marked with compass grid sections, comes with 12 1:500 series maps of the grid sections highlighted on the Index Map. States of Jersey Edition 1966. Michael Ginns used these maps when he was identifying the sites of German defensive structures in Jersey, 1986 (13 items).

 

JERSEY 1:25000: Index map, 1987, marked with compass grid sections, comes with 39 maps of the grid sections highlighted on the Index Map (40 items).

 

L’ETACQUEREL BUNKER: Jersey. Design of a Bunkerbar ‘Last Chance’. 12th June 1978.

 

NORDOST ~ AFRIKA: 1:1000 000. 22nd June 1942 (2 items)

 

 

Plans and Drawings

 

ALDERNEY: Atlantic Wall Defences 1940-1945. Published by The Ampersand Press Alderney 1984.

 

COASTAL DEFENCE: 10.5cm typical casemate.

 

GIBRALTAR: Elevation of tunnels (laminated).

 

GUERNSEY: Atlantic Wall Defences 1940-1945. Published by The Ampersand Press Alderney 1984.

JERSEY: Atlantic Wall Defences 1940-1945. Published by the Ampersand Press Alderney 1984.

 

JERSEY: Existing Observation Tower at Westmount St Helier. Outline details of structure and immediate surrounds, March 1987. C.H. Rothwell and Partners, Consulting Engineers, 17 La Motte Street, St Helier. Drawing No.8737/1a. (Two Plans)

 

JERSEY: German Bunker, Corbière and proposed Jersey Radio Station on German Bunker, Corbière. Org No.2566/2, 2566/3. 2566/5 and 2566/6 (Later deposited in December 2005). Department of Public Building and Works, 14th February 1978 (4 items).

 

JERSEY TUNNELS: Set of 6 War Office Survey drawings completed in August 1962.

Grand Vaux ~ central tunnel (L) Ho4. Drawing No. 2336-1.

Grand Vaux ~ south tunnel Ho10. Drawing No.2336-2

Beaumont ~ west tunnel (C) Ho15. Drawing No.2336-3.

Beaumont ~ east tunnel (D) Ho13. Drawing No.2336-4.

St Peter’s Valley ~ west tunnel (E) Ho1. Drawing No.2336-5.

St Peter’s Valley ~ east tunnel Ho2. Drawing No.2336-6.

 

JERSEY: Comparative sections of Artillery Direction Finding Towers in Jersey. MP1 Noirmont, MP2 La Corbière and MP3 Les Landes.

 

JERSEY: Direction Finding Tower, Marinepeilstand 1 (MP1) Noirmont. Traced from Department of Public Building and Works. Drawing No.262/2, 17th May 1978 (2 items).

 

M19 AUTOMATIC 5cm FORTRESS BUNKER: Cross section drawings of the 5cm Maschinengranatwerfer M19 at La Corbière (2 items).

 

MOLTKE BATTERIE: Les Landes gun position plan scale 1:100 (3 items).

 

NOIRMONT: Leitstand Bunker (3 items).

 

NOIRMONT: Leitstand Bunker plans 13th March 1977 (10 items).

 

VEGA, SS: Side elevation of the ship. States of Jersey Department of Public Building and Works, 28th February 1985 (laminated).

 


 

CIOS (Jersey) Archive

Reference Books

 

LENTON, H.T: American Gunboats and Minesweepers. WW2 Fact Files. Illustrated, card covers. London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1974. Price £1.20p.

 

LENTON, H.T: British Escort Ships. WW2 Fact Files. Illustrated, card covers. London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1974. Price £1.20p.

 

SEEGER, Hans T. (Dr.): Militärische Fermgläser und Fernrohre in Heer, Luftwaffe und Marine (Military Binoculars and Telescopes for Land, Air and Sea Service). Two key chapters are in English,  as are all illustration captions. Druck und Verarbeitung: Druckerei Kempkes, D-35067 Gladenbach,  1996. (ISBN 3-00-000457-2).

 

SEEGER, Hans T. (Dr.): Optisches Gerät der deutschen Wehrtechnik (German Military Technology:  The Optical Equipment). Druck und Verarbeitung: Druckerei Kempkes, D-35067 Gladenbach, 1997.  (ISBN 3-00-001589-2).

 

WE, Inc: German Military Uniforms and Insignia 1933-1945. Illustrated hardback. USA: WE, Post Office Box 131, Old Greenwich, Conn. 06870, 1967.

 

 

 

Other CIOS (Jersey) Reference Books Deposited with the Jersey Archive

Awaiting Cataloguing


 

CIOS (Jersey) Archive

Channel Islands Occupation Reviews

Journal of the Channel Island Occupation Society

 

Published annually and alternately, by the Jersey and Guernsey Branches. Early issues refer to the “German Occupation Society” and use the name SIGNAL.

 

 

Album containing earliest issues (photocopies) from 1966 to 1970 of Signal: Review of the German Occupation Society and Channel Islands Occupation Review. Presented to the Jersey Branch on the 10th Anniversary of its foundation by the Guernsey Branch, 23rd May, 1981.

  

1966, Signal, No.1, August.

Report of Meetings, January-July 1966; Opening of Guernsey Occupation Museum; Society Shooting Competition; Recent Acquisitions.

 

1966, Signal, No.2, September.

Society Barbecue; Recent Acquisitions; Crossword No.1; German Commanders: Lt-Col Albrecht Lanz.

 

1966, Signal, No.3, October.

German Occupation Society Rules; Report of Meetings; Recent Acquisitions; Crossword No.2.

 

1966, Signal, No.4, November.

Visit to Alderney; Crossword No.3.

 

1967, Signal, No.1.

Report on Meetings December 1966 - February 1967; Crossword No.4; What do you know?  German Commanders: Major Bandelow; Belt-Buckles of the Third Reich by E. Winder (illustrated).

 

1967, Signal, Review of the German Occupation Society, No.2.

Editorial; Report of Meetings December 1966 - December 1967; Chouet Quarry drained; Recent Acquisitions; Tunnel Under St Saviour’s Church; Investigation Committee’s Report; Festung Guernsey, Part 1, St Peter Port, by P. Martin; A selection of Occupation Poems of the Channel Islands, by Ruth Ogier; German Artillery used in the Channel Islands, 1940~1945; The 8.8cm  Anti~Aircraft Anti~Tank gun, by E. Winder.

 

1968, Signal, Review of the German Occupation Society, No.1.

Report of Meetings January 1968-June 1968; The Battle of the V’s.  The V sign campaign in Guernsey by Richard Heaume;  A Boy at War. Part 1. By John Boucheré.

 

1969, C.I. Occupation Review, Issue No.1, No.8.

Rules of the Society; Report of Meetings February 1969-June 1969; Salvage of Flak guns off the Harbour; Visit to Jersey; Who and What?; A boy at war. Part II. By J. Boucheré; Slaves and the Organisation Todt in Guernsey, by R. Mauger.

 

1969, C.I. Occupation Review, Issue No.2, No.8.

Report of Meetings July 1969-November 1969; Opening of the German tunnel under St Saviour’s Church, Guernsey, by Richard Heaume; Who and What?; Guernsey Evening Press, December 1944; A boy at war. Part III. By J. Boucheré; The Guernsey States Chemical Department 1940-1945, by P. Martin; Mighty Mirus, by R. Mauger.

 

1970, C.I. Occupation Review, Issue No.1, No.9.

Summer Programme 1970; Visit to Alderney; Combined Operations 1940-42: Casquets Raid; Channel Island Tactical Review, 1st September 1944; Führer Order for Channel Islands, 20th October 1941; Air Raid Precautions, by P. Martin; Summary of island life in Guernsey during the Occupation: Part 1, June 1940 to January 1941; Strongpoint ‘Tunnel’ (illustrated).  islander’s escape from German police, by R. Mauger.

 

 

1972, C.I. Occupation Review, No.1, Vol.1.

Rules of the Society.; German Commanders: Graf von Schmettow; Occupation Story, 1939-45, by W. Renouf; A brief history of our trip to Jersey, by L. Collins; Cobbler’s shop a hot-bed of news, by R. Mauger; Roy Payne’s Occupation, by R. Mauger; Germans - by the boots! By R. Mauger; Answer to a Red Cross letter, Anon; Summary of island life in Guernsey during the Occupation, 1940-45. Part II. January 1941 to January 1942; Invasion of Brehon; The German railway and fortifications on Grouville Common, Jersey, by M. Ginns; Batterie Steinbruch - Les Vardes Quarry.; German High Explosive Bombs (Illustrated); Slave labour in  Alderney 1940-45, by A. Herzka; Secrets of Castle (Cornet) are revealed; Strongpoint ‘Havelet Bay’; The German light railways in Guernsey, 1940-45: Part I (illustrated); Brehon Food; What tales Fort George would have to tell; The Builders of ‘Fortress’ Jersey, 1942-45, by R. Mayne.

 

1973, Channel Islands Occupation Review (Jersey).

(Foolscap size typed sheets with illustrations stapled together.)

German Tunnels In Jersey by Michael Ginns; A Brush with the RAD by Dennis Holmes; The German Naval Signals Organisation in the Channel Islands by Frank Wilson; Hitler’s Fortification Order of 194; Books to Read; Patrie. The Story of a Railway Engine by Michael Ginns; Wartime Shipping Losses in the Channel Island Waters by Richard Mayne.

 

1973, Channel Islands Occupation Review (Jersey)

Reprinted in 1977, smaller format. Contents as previous. Price £1.

 

1974, CIOS (Guernsey).

Liberation Reconnaissance by Rex Ferbrache; Forgotten Islanders by Richard Mayne; Return of the Luftwaffe by Robert Le Page; Red Cross Supplies; Batterie Mirus Command Centre by David Kreckeler; Mathews’ Sark Party the late John Mathews; News from the Kitchen Front by Margaret Bird; Guide to Vazon Bay Defences by Colin Partridge/David Kreckeler; Channel Islands Air Losses by John Goodwin; L’Angle Tower by Colin Partridge; ‘The Blockhouse’ by Ronald Mauger; Anti-tank Walls in Jersey by Michael Ginns.

 

1975, CIOS (Jersey).

Left Behind; Cezembre by Dennis Holmes; People Who Escaped From Jersey by Richard Mayne; Artillery Batteries in the Channel Islands by Michael Ginns; Infantry Strongpoints in Jersey by Peter Bryans; News From the Kitchen Front by Marjorie Bird; Glossary of German Terms; The Churches in Guernsey During the Occupation by Fred Martin; Not Attributable to Enemy Action by David Krecheler; The Day Peace Broke Out by John Boucheré; Batterie Mirus Research Project by Colin Partridge.

 

1976, CIOS (Guernsey).

Chouet Tower, Guernsey Frank E. Wilson 1905-1975; What was the ROA? by Michael Ginns; The Weapons of the German Soldier in the Channel Islands by Terry Gander; News from St Peter’s Bunker Museum, Jersey, by Richard Mayne; Snow Joke, A Boy at War - Part V by John Boucheré; Guide to Perelle Bay Defences by Colin Partridge /David Kreckeler; The Wall Game by Ken Tough; The sinking of HHS Charybdis and HMS Limbourne by John Wallbridge; Leaflets Dropped in the Channel Islands During World War II by John  Goodwin/Richard Mayne; German  Artillery in the Channel Islands postscript by Michael Ginns; The German military Telecommunications Network in Guernsey by David Kreckeler; News from the German Occupation Museum, Guernsey, by Richard Heaume; The Fortress Study Group by David Barnes, B.Sc.

 

1977, CIOS (Jersey).

The Fuel Shortage Solution - Holzgaz! by John Boucheré; Resistance Point La Rocque A, by Peter Bryans; A Tour of Alderney’s German Fortifications by Michael Ginns; Machine-guns used in the Channel Islands by Terry Gander.

 

1978, CIOS (Guernsey). Special Edition: Ships and the Sea.

Escapes from Guernsey and Alderney during the Occupation by David Kreckeler; HMS Rodney and the Bombardment of Alderney by Michael Ginns; Wartime Quarries in Jersey by Michael Ginns; MV Dorothes Weber - A Ship of the Supply Line by John Wallbridge; News from the Kitchen Front by Marjorie Bird; The States of Guernsey 1939-1945 by Ken Tough; German Mortars used in the Channel Islands by Terry Gander.

 

1979, CIOS, (Jersey).

The La Corbière Gun by Terry Gander; Commando Raid on Sark by Michael Ginns; Preservation Progress by the Jersey Branch; A Boy at War by John Boucheré; A Wehrmacht Geologist in Jersey by Dr. A.C. Bishop & E. Lauren;  Panzers in Guernsey by Richard Heaume; News from the Kitchen Front. A Haybox - The Fireless Cooker.

 

1980, CIOS, (Guernsey). Liberation Day Edition-35th Anniversary.

Channel Islands Liberation “RoRo” by John Wallbridge; The Story of the Palace Hotel Explosion by Denis Holmes; The 22cm Kanone 532(f) by Terry Gander; Fortifications at Noirmont Point, Jersey; Pleinmont Tower, Guernsey by Richard Heaume; E-Boat Raid out of St Peter Port by David Kreckeler; News from St Peter’s Bunker Museum by Richard Mayne; The Channel Islands Specialist Society by J. Simpson; Preservation Progress - The Jersey Branch by Michael Ginns; A Strange Story Without an End by Denis Holmes; Channel Islands Shipping by John Wallbridge & D. Hocquard; A Jaunt To Jersey by J.Q. Le Pelley.

 

1981, CIOS, (Jersey). Featuring the 4.7cm Pak 36(t).

The Kommandant by Michael Ginns; U-Boat 275 visits Guernsey by John Wallbridge; One Essential Service During the Occupation by L.J. Hawkley; The 4.7cm Pak 36(t) by Terry Gander; Preservation Progress - The Jersey Branch by Michael Ginns; Karl Grier - Reluctant Soldier by Margaret Ginns.

 

1982, CIOS (Guernsey).

Naval Battle in the Channel Islands by David Kreckeler; Preservation Progress - The Jersey Branch by Michael Ginns; Rev. E.G. Stoneman by Richard Heaume. ; The Liberation of Guernsey, A personal Recollection by J. Wilson; Horticulture in  Guernsey, 1940-1945 by A. Timmer; Guernsey’s Buried Artillery by Ken Tough; One Man’s Liberation Story by F.L. Rossiter; Alderney Expectations by John Wallbridge; E-Boat Raid out of St Peter Port by David Kreckeler.

 

1983, CIOS (Jersey).

Artillery Carriers by John Wallbridge;  A Trio of Field Guns by Terry Gander; Do They Ever Come Back? by Michael Ginns; The Formation of Naval Artillery Battalion 604 by Theo Krausen; Major Shipwrecks in Jersey Waters - 1943 by Michael Ginns; British and American POWs in Jersey by Margaret Ginns

 

1984, CIOS (Guernsey).

German Coastal Artillery on the Channel Islands by David Kreckeler; Preservation Progress - The Jersey Branch by Michael Ginns; News from the German Occupation  Museum Guernsey by Richard Heaume; A Bridge Over the Enemy by Michael Ginns; Major Lanz. The First Kommandant in Guernsey. (Translation of a Report); Bradshaw Advice Cards by A.G. Marriner (CISS); No Surrender by Michael Ginns; Index to Reviews by Ken Tough.

 

1985, CIOS (Jersey). Special 40th Anniversary of Liberation Edition.

Atlantic Wall Blueprint by Michael Luke; Liberation Day - Jersey by Leslie Jackson; Liberation Voyage by John Wallbridge; Operation Nestegg and Task Force 135; French North African P.O.W’s by Margaret Ginns; Preservation Progress by David Letto.

 

1986, CIOS (Guernsey).

Belza and the Mustang Pilot by Margaret Ginns; Anti-Tank Obstacles in Jersey by David Maindonald; Eyewitness Report - The Raid on the Contentin Peninsular by Bernd Westoff; Reginald Ferbrache 1902-1982 by John Wallbridge; German Fortifications by Ken Tough; The Sark Raid - A Photographic Postscript by Michael Ginns; Finds from Falla’s Quarry by Richard Heaume; German Administration of the Channel Islands - A German view; With Force 135 by William Nealy; The Channel Islands and the Ultra Secret by Michael Ginns; Photographic Scrapbook by John Goodwin.

 

1987, CIOS (Jersey).

German Harbour Organisation and the Harbour Protection Flotilla by Michael Ginns; German Flame-Throwers in Jersey by Martin Walton; War Poems by Josephine Costard; Channel Island Communications in World War II by W.R. Tyson; Preservation Progress by Karen Maindonald; The Missing Link - USS PC564 by Margaret Ginns.

 

 

1988, CIOS (Guernsey).

Alderney’s German Jetty by Dr. P. Schenk; The Evacuation of Guernsey Schoolchildren by P. Le Pelley; German Flame-Throwers in Jersey Part 2 by Martin Walton; The Loss of Speedball and Piccadilly Commando by John Goodwin; German Ground Radar in the Channel Islands by A. Hobbs; La Mare Sechsschartenturm by David Letto; The Story of PT509 by H. Constabel; Fortress Covers into the Occupied Channel Islands by I. Griggs; Photographic Postscript.

 

1989, CIOS (Jersey) No. 17.

Events in 1988; Obituaries; Coastal Artillery Observation Posts by Michael Ginns; Book Review; Fortress Covers into the Occupied Channel Islands by Ian Griggs; The End of Resistance Nest Pavilion by David Letto; Cezembre - A Postscript by Michael Ginns; Operation Nestegg - A Narrative by Dennis Small; Do They Ever Come Back? Part II - Herr Georg Brefka by Michael Ginns; Preservation Section.

 

1990, CIOS (Guernsey) No. 18.

The Arrival of the Occupying Forces by John Goodwin; The Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, by Colin Partridge; Unternehmung Grünepfeil.  Operation Green Arrow and the 216 Infantry Division in the Channel Islands by Michael Ginns; German and Austrian Settlers in Guernsey by Margaret Boden-Heaume; The Unexpected Meadow Saffron by Jean-Pierre Le Brun & Adélaïde Stork; Abandoned Alderney by Colin Partridge; The 2cm Flak 30 by Terry Gander; The Oestmann Correspondence-Jersey 1941 by Ian Griggs; Book Reviews and Obituaries.

 

1991, CIOS (Jersey) No. 19.

Land Mine Warfare in the Channel Islands by Terry Gander; Book Review; The Mysterious Travels of a Wartime Letter by Ian Griggs; The 319 Infantry Division in the Channel Islands by Michael Ginns; The Disposal of Jersey’s German Coastal Artillery Weapons by Terry O’Brien; Gun Recovery-Stage One by Terry O’Brien; Do They Ever Come Back? Part III - Herr Siegfried Köhler by Michael Ginns; Field Analysis and Preservation Progress.

 

1992, CIOS (Guernsey) No. 20.

Festung Guernsey 1944-An Analysis of the Official German Handbook on their Island Fortress - Part I by Pierre Renier; The Identity Card System in Occupied Guernsey by Ken Tough; German Road Numbering System - Part 1 - Jersey by Michael Ginns; Deportation from Guernsey 1942 - Two personal accounts and a German Assessment by Ken Tough; Book Review - Jack Sauvary’s Diary; Captured at the Casquets - An Ornithological Footnote.

 

1993, CIOS (Jersey) No. 21.

Atlanikwall Defender - The 5cm Maschinengranatwerfer M19 by Terry Gander with Lt-Col (Ret.) Herbert Jaeger; M19 Bunkers in the Channel Islands by Terry O’Brien; Erika by Alan Hobbs; Fête Maigre-Boxing Day Menu, 1944, submitted by Peter Gibaut; German Road Numbering Systems - Part II - Guernsey by Michael Ginns and Colin Isherwood; Gun Recovery - Stage Two by Terry O’Brien; A Swiss Girl in Guernsey by Elisa Müller submitted by Richard Heaume; Do They Ever Come Back? Part IV - Herr Paul Lubbe by Harry Aubin; Field Analysis and Preservation Progress.

 

1994, CIOS (Guernsey) No. 22.

Festung Guernsey 1944 - An Analysis of the Official German Handbook on their Island Fortress - Part 2 by Pierre Renier; Methodism Occupied by Herbert White; Channel Islands Occupation Review Index - 1984 to 1993 by Piere Renier; Preservation Progress by Michael Ginns; Book Review - Guernsey Green - An Autobiography of Bill Green by William Bell; November 1944 - A Dog’s Life? by Piere Renier; Do They Ever Come Back? Hasso von Schaaffhausen by Richard Heaume; A Last Salute to Chouet Tower by Richard Heaume; Jersey Coastal Artillery-Battery Plans from Festung Jersey 1944 - Part 1, by Ken Tough.

 

1995, CIOS (Jersey) No. 23.

1945-1995 Special 50th Anniversary of the Liberation Edition.  Do You Remember Liberation Day? by Dixie Landick; The Liberation of Jersey - Then and Now; The Day Peace Broke Out by John Boucheré; Liberation Air Cover by Flt/Lt. (Ret.) Philip Knowles; Evacuation of Prisoners and Reconnaissance of the Island of Sark - A report by Major J. Clement, RA; What Liberation Day? by Michael Ginns; Do They ever Come Back? Part V - Herr Georg Brefka (sequel); Minefield clearance in Guernsey by Captain H.W. Beckingham; Civil Emergency Services During the Occupation by R.V. Le Tissier; Marie Ozanne by Richard Heaume; Jersey Freemasonry During the Occupation by Dennis Perrin; The Last Flight of “Daisy Mae Scraggs” by Dennis Hall; Do They Ever Come Back? Part VI - Herr Johannes Kegelmann; Field Analysis and Preservation Progress.

 

1996, CIOS (Guernsey) No. 24.

Festung Guernsey 1944 - An Analysis of the Official German Handbook on Their Island Fortress - Part 3, by Piere Renier; Force 135 - Recollections of the Liberation of Guernsey in May 1945 by Colonel David David MC, RE, (Retd); Preservation Progress by David Letto; The Visit of Major Gruzdev by Michael Ginns; General De Gaulle and English ‘Coffee’; A German Anti-Aircraft Battery Commander in Guernsey by Dieter Hankel; Jersey Coastal Artillery-Battery Plans from Festung Jersey 1944 - Part 2, by Ken Tough; Book Reviews - Aspects of War & I Beg To Report...Policing in Guernsey During the German Occupation; Report On Excavation of Fortifications at Fort Hommet by Ernie Gavey; Fortress Tour - 6th August 1945.

 

1997, CIOS (Jersey) No. 25.

The Soldatenheim Guest Book by Michael Ginns; Do They Ever Come Back? Part VII-Herr Alfred Knipps, submitted by Ken Williams; A Ghost is Laid to Rest, by Stuart Elliott, MIExpE; No Surrender-A Postscript by Michael Ginns; The Model Occupation-Setting the Record Straight by Linda Holt and Ward Rutherford; Foreign Workers’ Burials in Guernsey - A Re-Appraisal by Michael Ginns; A Jersey Holiday in 1947 by Terry O’Brien; 88s in the Channel Islands by Terry Gander.; Preservation and Field Analysis; Obituaries.

 

1998, CIOS (Guernsey) No. 26 (September 2000).

Escape from Alderney by William Bell; Memories of an Evacuee in Oldham by Rex Le Poidvin; Four Years as an Occupation Soldier in Guernsey by Wilhelm Burkett; MNO Restoration Project by Paul Bourgaize & Ian Carr; How did the Occupation  Affect the Health of the Channel Islanders? by GeorgeEllison, David Jeffs and John Harvey; An Unofficial Fortress Tour ~ June 1945; The German Harbour Protection Flotilla ~ August 1942 by Pierre Renier; Batterie Generaloberst Dollmann Restoration Project by Ian Brehaut; A German Naval Doctor in Jersey 1942 ~ 1945 by Dr August Hartmann; Memories of Occupation and Liberation by Edward Simon; Jersey Coastal Artillery ~ Battery Plans from Festung Jersey 1944 ~ Part 3 by Ken Tough; Preservation Progress in Jersey by David Letto; Hans Sinn 1924 ~ 1997; Bunker Baedekers for the Channel Islands.

 

1999, CIOS (Jersey) No. 27.

The Little Commandant of Sark by Richard Heaume; No.1 Silvertide by Brian Ahier; British Coasters Under the Swastika by Dave Hacqard; Do They Ever Come back? Part VIII - Herr Otto Schmiegler by Michael Ginns, MBE; Clandestine Activities - Norman Le Brocq’s Story, Transcribed by Sir Martin Le Quesne, KCMG, with footnotes by Michael Ginns, MBE; A Russian in Hiding - “Bill” Feodor Burriy by Michael Frowd, with contributions from René Le Franoux, Bob le Sueur, Charles and Bea Phillips and Norman Le Brocq; Pilot Officer Scheidhauer - The Forced landing and “the Great Escape” by Ian Le Sueur; Operation Tunnel - A survivor’s Reminiscence by Gerald Evans, submitted by Richard Heaume; Preservation Progress at Noirmont Point by Mathew Costard; Obituaries.

 

2001, CIOS (Guernsey) No. 28.

40th Anniversary of the CIOS by Richard Heaume; Impressions of the Occupation of Guernsey by Dr. Alistair Rose; A Startling Experience for Both Sides ~ Alderney and Guernsey 1940, by E.V. Clayton.  ‘Red’ Enigma, Boniface and the ‘Y’ Service ~ Events of 27th June to 1st July 1940 by Pierre Renier; Legion Condor in the Channel Islands by Dr Ulrich Käser; St Jacques German Naval Signals Bunker ~ Preservation Progress and a Unique Find, by Paul Bourgaize and Ian Carr; Rolling Field Kitchens by Simon Hamon; Occupying my mind 1940~1945 by Frank Hubert; Frank Edward Stroobant an Appreciation by a Fellow Internee; Sixty Years ago ~ May and June in Jersey 1940 by Michael Ginns MBE; Memories of Fort George Guernsey ~ 5th September 1939 to June 1940 by Pte L.T. Singleton, RAMC; Who’s Been Sleeping in My House? by Molly Bihet; The German Harbour Protection Flotilla ~ June 1941 to August 1942 by Pierre Renier.

 

2001, CIOS (Jersey) No. 29.

The Luftwaffe in Jersey 1940~1941 by Michael Ginns, MBE; Accidental Tourists: Germany, the Channel Islands, and Espionage, 1940~45 by Mark M. Hull, J.D; Jail and Escape under the Jackboot by Jenny Chamier Grove; Notes on a Planned Mutiny of the German Armed Forces in Jersey on 1st May 1945, and on the German Deserter, Paul Mülbach by R.W. Le Sueur; Anti-Tank Walls in Jersey ~ Blessing or Burden? By Michael Ginns, MBE; The restoration of a Stoewer R200S Radio Car (Le.Pkw.Kfz.2.fu) by Damien Horn; The End of Command Post “Battle Group Sea Targets East” by Matthew Costard; The Restoration of a “Kernwork” Bunker by David Letto; Preservation Progress at the Noirmont Command Bunker by Mathew Costard; Obituaries.

 

2003, CIOS (Jersey) No. 31.

Editorial; News and Events; Siebel-Fähren & Artilleriefährprahme in Channel Island Waters 1941-1945 by Norbert F. Sauermilch; Noel McKinstry by Dr Louise Willmot; the French Renault Char B Tank in German Service in World War Two by Dr Werner Regenberg; Compulsory German Classes by Jenny Chamier Grove; Diary Entries and Letters by Albin Ballauf, 1st Company Pioneer Batallion 319 contributed by Dieter Ballauf, and submitted by Richard Heaume; ‘Wolff of the Gestapo’ by Michael Ginns MBE; Reconciliation: The Twinning of St Helier and Bad Wurzach by Josephine Ginns; Permits/Ausweiss Issued to William Robert Alex Richardson by Damien Horn; preservation Progress at La Carrière by Matthew Costard; Obituaries.

 

2004, CIOS (Guernsey) No. 32

Editorial; A Teachers Experience by Ruby Le Page; Alderney & Sylt Camp – The Memoires of Sylvester Kukula by Jolanta Boot; Sylt Camp & Letter from Himmler; Occupation Recipes; Book Review – Festung Alderney by P. H. de L. Martin; Memorandum on Germans by the late Rev. John Leale; Batterie Schlieffen, Jersey by Michael Ginns, MBE; Brecqhou Goes to War by Chris Le Tissier; Silent Resistance, the V-Sign Badges by G. Carr & R. L. Heaume; Do They Ever Come Back? – Paul Sommerfeld by P. Bourgaize; USS Maloy, Destroyer Escort 791 by Maynard B. Williamson; Gallery of Previously Unpublished Photographs; The Story of Egypt (trinity, Jersey) by Michael Ginns, MBE; Oblt. Friedrich Rammel, Flak Regt 39 by R. L. Heaume; Preservation Progress: Naval Signals Bunker, Luftwaffe HQ & Group Visits, Guernsey by P. Bourgaize; Preservation Progress: Batterie Generaloberst Dollmann. Guernsey Armouries by Ian Brehaut, Dave Malledent & Tony Froome.


 

Channel Islands Occupation Society Archives Books

 

JERSEY

 

1980, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book 1. Numbered Limited Edition.

Jersey Besieged. Wartime Photographs of local defences from official German sources by Michael Ginns.

 

1981, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book 2.

The German Field Post Office in the Channel Islands by Michael Wieneke.

 

1981, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book 3.

Verstarkung der Kanalinseln (Reinforcing the Channel Islands 1941).  Hitler’s Fortification Orders.

 

1983, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book 4.

German Armour in the Channel Islands 1941-1945. Panzer Abteilung 213 in text and pictures by Michael Ginns.

 

1983, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book 5.

Channel Islands Merchant Shipping 1940-1945. A Maritime History in text and pictures by Captain John Wallbridge.

 

1984, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book 6.

Occupation Camera. Photographs from the collection of John Buesnel, by Michael Ginns.

 

1993, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book No.7.

German Tunnels in the Channel Islands by Michael Ginns with plans by Paul Burnal.

 

1994, CIOS (Jersey). Archive Book No.8.

The Organisation Todt and the Fortress Engineers in the Channel Islands by Michael Ginns.

 

1999, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book No.9.

Jersey’s German Bunkers by Michael Ginns.

 

2002, CIOS (Jersey). Archives Book No. 10

Batterie Lothringen, Noirmont Point, Jersey by Paul Burnel.

 

 

JERSEY Miscellaneous

German Fortifications in Jersey, by Michael Ginns and Peter Bryans. Illustrated booklet. Original 1975 publication of the revised 1999, CIOS (Jersey) Archives Book No.9.

 

 

GUERNSEY

1983, CIOS (Guernsey). Publication No.1.

German M-Class Minesweepers of the Channel Islands 1940-1945, by Captain John Wallbridge.