[9] St. Mary "Sent Overseas"

Many Islanders are forced to leave their homes and are sent overseas as a punishment to the internment camps, prisons and concentration camps of the Nazi regime.

Between September 1942 and February 1943 over 1300 Island residents are deported to camps in Southern Germany in retaliation for Germans being interned in Persia and in reprisal for Allied Commando raids. The 18th century castle Wurzach-Allegau in Wurtemburg is the destination for over 600 Islanders from Jersey. On the evening of Christmas Day 1943 a small party of ten commandoes land on the north east coast to gather intelligence. Their leader, Captain Ayton, is mortally wounded when he steps on a mine as he returns to the rendezvous. Amoungst the political prisoners taken from Jersey is Canon Clifford Cohu, Rector of St.Saviour, who is betrayed and arrested in March 1943 for spreading the BBC news. He dies in Spergau Concentration camp in February 1945. Joseph Tierney, arrested with Canon Cohu, dies on a forced march in Celle Czechoslovakia in May 1945. The number of escapes from the Island carried out in small boats, once Normandy is liberated in the summer of 1944, becomes a source of irritation to the occupying forces. The family watches as the first Islanders are deported to camps in Germany.

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1. Trinity

2. Grouville

3. St.Helier

4. St.Peter

5. St.Saviour

6. St.Lawrence

7. St.Ouen

8. St.Brelade

9. St.Mary

10. St.John

11. St.Martin

12. St.Clement