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101v at Noirmont opened for the first time since 1948 - Thanks
for all who helped or came to support the entry.
 
 
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10 Feb
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A fantastic visit to the cold war civil emergency headquarters -
ex telephone repeater Bunker. Many thanks to Mark Lamerton for
organising and to Michael Long for opening for us and giving an
insight into the cold war.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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13 Jan |
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An excellent talk on Telephone and Exchange Bunkers by David Maindonald
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2009
26 Nov |
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Excavations at Noirmont 101v are complete - entry to the bunker
itself likely to take place in early 2010.
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11 Nov |
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An excellent talk on
the banking crisis 1940-45 by Mrs Mary Gibb.
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27 Oct |
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Michael Ginns MBE in conjunction with the Jersey War Tunnels
publishes his long awaited definitive book on the occupation of
Jersey. Entitled Jersey occupied 1940-45, the book runs to 540
pages and is only available from the Jersey War Tunnels -
Michael will be signing copies 10-12am on Saturday 6th November.
We are looking at the best way to make these available to UK and
overseas members - without he postal costs being
prohibitively expensive.
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14 Oct |
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An excellent further slide selection
and talk by Michael Ginns MBE
German Railways in
Jersey
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Early September |
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Works
starts on the excavation at Noirmont - The 101v Bunker, help can
be given on Sat or Sun pm over
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9 Sept |
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Excellent talk by Neil Walker on German Optics
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31 August |
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Visit
by Sven Zimmer and Julia Remmel
Sven
opens a B1.1 Bunker as part of the Westwallmuseen Saar-Mosel e V
www.westwallmuseen-saar-mosel.eu
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24-26 July |
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French trip
Resistance Museum
- St Marcel
Grand Blockhouse -
Batz-Sur-Mer
FL242 V. Naval
Flak Brigade Command Bunker at St. Marc-sur-Mer
Batterie
 
St Nazaire
 
 
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16 July |
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Paul
Burnal led a fantastic walk around Rozel Fort thanks to the kind
permission of the owner.
It was
interesting to see the Searchlight dolly wheels which he has
uncovered.
The
second group stragglers finished with a look at the second tank
turret position on the pier,
now a
water overflow tank.
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July 2009 |
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Britain at War July 2009 includes an article on members Damien
Horn's museum.
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11 June |
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Martin Walton walks members around Batterie
Mackenson, showing photos from 1945 when the Guns were removed.
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11 May |
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A great annual dinner was enjoyed by 30 members.
 
 
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9 May |
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Engelbert Hoppe visits us once again to see his
"old bunker" and "new friends".
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6 May |
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2009
Review Published
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6 May |
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Archives day at the Jersey War Tunnels - thanks to all helpers
on the day this was well received and there was a significant
increase in attendance over November!
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9 Apr |
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Tony
Robinson from Time team visits our Bunkers at Corbiere and
Noirmont, he was in the island
undertaking some work for tourism.
Member
and Blue Badge guide Tom Bunting with Tony at the M19
Tony
looking down the barrel of our 10.5 K331(f) Schneider gun
at Corbiere
Malcolm, Jeremy, Paul B. and Kevin with Tony (Thanks also to
Paul T. for opening casemate)
Paul B
signs his book Batterie Lothringen for Tony |
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8 Apr |
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David
Chapman gave a talk to a full audience entitled Methodism in the
Occupation to tie in
to the Launch
of his book:
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24 Mar |
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New Book Launched: Guernsey under Occupation The
Second World War Diaries of Violet Carey, which will be
published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd see
www.phillimore.co.uk
for further details.
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14 Mar |
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AGM - Welcome Bernie, Damian and Colin. Thank you
to Malcolm, Kevin and Geoff. Book sale raised £132 for the CIOS,
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11 Feb |
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Colin Isherwood
made a welcome return as a presenter by talking to us about the
German road system.
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14 Jan
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Alderney revisited - An
excellent illustrated talk by David Maindonald, showing pictures
taken in the late
1970's
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The January Issue of the Armourer
magazine includes an interesting local article: Forgotten
History: Channel Islands in the Great War by Irene Moore, there
is a piece on the German WW1 prisoner of war camp in St Ouen -
and the German prisoner who returned in 1940!
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2009 |
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The
January issue of British Archaeology includes an 5 page article
by our good friend Dr Gilly Carr, looking at WW2 Relics in
Guernsey (thanks mark for the tip off on this one)
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