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Sound recording of John Bouchere speaking about the Occupation and the years after. He was interviewed on 15/11/2004 by Stuart Nicolle for the Liberation to Coronation Oral History Project. Mr Bouchere speaks about the days leading up to Liberation and the disbelief of peoplet, the realisation that the Germans were defeated, the arrival of the British Navy on Liberation Day, taking German equipment, having a bicycle, the clear up operation, sending the Germans to England, the food coming in to the Island, the Red Cross clothes, working at a garage during the war, converting cars to wood gas, finding petrol where you could, new cars coming in after the War, how the cars were shipped and delivered and the role of the garage.

Reference: C/D/P/P1/10

Date: 15 November 2004

Volume of Annual Returns from individual island schools. The names of the attending children are recorded along with attendance summaries, inspectors reports, accounts, examination results and the names of teachers and pupil teachers. This volume has been indexed by name of person mentioned. The volume can be viewed at the Archive to access extra detail.

Reference: D/J/A/4

Date: 1879

Annual Returns from Individual Schools. Numbers and names of children, attendance, summary of inspectors reports, accounts, examination results and names of teachers. For the following schools, St Paul's National school, St Luke's Church of England school, St Ouen's Parochial school, St Mark's National school, Gouray National school, Jersey National school, St Ouen's Wesleyan school, St Peter's National school, St Saviour's National school, St James' National school, St Simon's Church of England school, St Matthew's Mixed Elementary school, Jersey Gouray Hilgrove Endowed school, Jersey Trinity Parochial school, St Helier's Ragged school, St Helier's Wesleyan school, St Martin's Rozel School, St Brelade's Parochial school, St Mary and St Peter's Roman Catholic school, Grouville Central school, Trinity Parochial school

Reference: D/J/A/5

Date: 1880

Annual Returns from Individual Schools. Numbers and names of children, attendance, summary of inspectors reports, accounts, examination results and names of teachers. For the following schools, St Paul's National school, St Luke's Church of England school, St Ouen's Parochial school, St Mark's National school, Gouray National school, Jersey National school, St Ouen's Wesleyan school, St Peter's National school, St Saviour's National school, St James' National school, St Simon's Church of England school, St Matthew Mixed Elementary school, Jersey Gouray Hilgrove Endowed school, Jersey Trinity Parochial school, St Helier's Ragged school, St Helier's Wesleyan school, St Martin's Rozel School, St Brelade's Parochial school, St Mary and St Peters' Roman Catholic school, Grouville Central school, Trinity Parochial school

Reference: D/J/A/6

Date: 1881

Channel Islands Occupation Society Album 2. Photographs relating to the German Occupation of the Channel Islands which include: German officers, soldiers, battalions and regiments, hotels, rehearsals for Operation Sea Lion, the construction of the dam at St Catherine's Reservoir, vehicle requisitions, Liberation forces, and fortifications and defences in Alderney before and after Liberation.

Reference: L/D/25/F7/2

Date: 1941 - 1997

Three interviews 1) Recording of Harold Le Druillenec, the only British person to survive in Belsen, introducing the King's christmas broadcast after liberation had taken pace. Introduced by the man who chose him to make the speech, it includes references to his time in Belsen, his sister [Louisa Gould] and the thanks that the Channel Islands felt towards the Free World for restoring freedom. Interrupted before the finish. 2) Michael Ginns with Beth Lloyd-talking about his article about the Granville Raid by the Germans. Includes reasons why he wrote the article, the research he undertook, he talks about the raids themselves and the new things that appear in his article. 3) Interviews by Diane Smith of Eileen Le Sueur and John Bouchere, who lived in Jersey during the Occupation, intermingled with musical intervals of music from the 1940s. Subjects discussed include their reaction to Occupation beginning, what made people stay, their employment, how the Island changed physically over the years, lack of supplies, exchange and mart and bartering, fortifications being built, maintenance of the government, changes in home life, social life, listening to the radio, rationing, the relationship between German soldiers and children of Jersey, restrictions on the Jersey population including curfew and radios, the strictness of the Germans, the interrogation of John Bouchere, propaganda in the Island in newspapers and the cinema, country and town life, food, entertainments, concerts held in celebration of the arrival of Red Cross parcels, the arrest of Eileen Le Sueur for having propaganda leaflets, West's Cinema, a list of entertainers, danger on the island including air raids, minefields and being caught out after curfew, resistance in the island, what was missed most, radios, memories, positive aspects of the Occupation and Liberation Day.

Reference: L/D/25/L/29

Jersey Talking Magazine, January [1982].

Reference: R/05/B/61

Date: 1 January 1982 - 31 January 1982

Jersey Talking Magazine, April [1982].

Reference: R/05/B/63

Date: 1 April 1982 - 30 April 1982

Jersey Talking Magazine, October [1982].

Reference: R/05/B/66

Date: 1 October 1982 - 31 October 1982

Jersey Talking Magazine, December [1982].

Reference: R/05/B/67

Date: 1 December 1982 - 31 December 1982

Jersey Talking Magazine, mid-summer 1984.

Reference: R/05/B/76

Date: 1 June 1984 - 30 June 1984

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