This book would not have been possible had we not been given complete access to all records, open and closed, at Guernsey and Jersey archives. We would like to thank the staff there who went above and beyond the call of duty to help us. They include: Darryl Ogier, Nathan Coyde and Lawrence West at the Island Archives in Guernsey, and Linda Romeril, Stuart Nicolle and all the staff at Jersey Archives. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Law Officers Department in Jersey, the Police Service in Guernsey and Jersey, the Guernsey Greffe, and the Bailiffs and Lieutenant-Governors offices in Guernsey and Jersey.
We would also like to thank Chris Addy for all of the help he gave us when we examined the archives and collections at Jersey War Tunnels; Amanda Bennett, Sue Laker, and all of the staff at the Priaulx Library, Guernsey, for helping us find all the Occupation-related diaries relevant to this project; Val Nelson, Doug Ford, Jon Carter and staff at Jersey Heritage; Jason Monaghan, Matt Harvey and other staff at Guernsey Museum; Richard Heaume, Director of the German Occupation Museum in Guernsey, for allowing us access to his archives and objects, and for his kindness and many cups of tea and Occupation-related conversations; and to Peter and Paul Balshaw, owners of the Vallette Underground Military Museum in St Peter Port, for access to their collections.
A number of friends in the Channel Islands helped us in our archival data collection, and they include Gillian Lenfesty, Ken Tough and Fay Warrilow. We would also like to thank Annie Corbitt, our research assistant in 2011 who helped analyse the statistical data; Mark Lamerton, who was his usual helpful self in feeding us useful press cuttings and emails; Jose Day, who allowed us to peruse her fathers diary; and most of all, to Rebecca Montague, who had the onerous job of compiling and editing the primary and secondary bibliographies, and who made the referencing styles of three academics consistent. Thank you Rebecca! You are a star.
We would also like to thank the staff at The National Archives in Kew, the Imperial War Museum, the International Tracing Service in Arolsen, and at the Military Archive in Freiburg. Our thanks also to Rachel OFlynn and Mary Pring at the Foreign Office, who have been more helpful than they realize.
Channel Islanders from Jersey, Guernsey and Sark have been helpful, supportive, generous and open in allowing us to consult their cherished family archives, diaries, and other relevant papers. We have received letters, emails and phone calls weekly from the Channel Islands, the United Kingdom and further afield since the project began in 2010, with people coming forwards with offers of family information. This has been incredibly important in helping the project be as comprehensive as it has.
Our chief thanks must go jointly to the families of Frank Falla and Joseph Gillingham for their generosity, kindness, support and trust in our project. We would also like to thank other former political prisoners and their families from across the Channel Islands who were interviewed for this project, including: William Ozanne and the rest of the Ozanne clan, Francis Harris, Leo Harris, Alf Williams, Peter Gray, Wendy Tipping, Richard Ahier, Mickey Neil, Basil Le Brun, Mavis Lemon, Victor Webb, the Sowden and Hamon families and Bernard Turpin. In addition, we are deeply grateful to other islanders who opposed the Germans but were never arrested, including Robert Le Sueur.
We would like to thank former Bailiffs, Sir Philip Bailhache, Sir Geoffrey Rowland and Sir de Vic Carey, who have granted us interviews for this project.
Members of the Guernsey Deportee Association and former Jersey ex-Internee Association and their families have kindly allowed Gilly Carr to interview them for this project. We thank them warmly and list them here: Tom Remfrey, Michael Ginns, Moggie Hill, Ursula Dingle, John Green, Yvonne Osborn, Peter Sirett, Barry Webber, Sylvia Diamond, Heather Duggan, John Goodwin, Godfrey Le Cappelain, David Skillett, David Barrett, Sheila Legg, Mary Cornish, Peter Levitt, Irene Barrett and Christine Bailey.
Throughout this volume we have quoted from or referenced aspects of many unpublished and archival Occupation diaries and papers. We have tried to track down all of the individuals and families concerned but this has not proved possible. Those who have given their permission include, with our grateful thanks: Peter Gray, Michael Elstob, Nigel Lewis, Joyce Le Ruez, the legal owners of the diaries of Gertrude Corbin and Ella Frampton, Margaret Le Vesconte, Arnold Bennett, Bernard Cavey, Gordon Duquemin, the families of Albert Chardine, Arthur Mahy, Charles Albert Friend, Adle Lain, the Reverend Ord, Bert Williams, Kingston George Bailey and the family of Ren Havard. Violet Careys unpublished diaries were quoted with the kind permission of Patricia Paxton.
We would welcome contact from the families of other diarists whose work we referenced in the bibliography and who we have tried to track down without success.
To those who have given us permission to reproduce photographs, we would like to thank: Christine Bailey, Peter and Paul Balshaw, Jonathan Bartlett, Damien Horn, the family of Frank Falla, Eric Goldrein, Mr and Mrs A. T. Green, Mark Guppy, Richard Heaume, Jersey Heritage Collections, William Ozanne, Peter Sirett, the Socit Jersiaise, Andrew Tift and Wendy Tipping. The wonderful image on the front cover is of a crystal radio set owned by Mrs A. M. Le Quesne; we thank her grandson for permission to use it.
We would also like to thank the editors of the Guernsey Press and the Jersey Evening Post for their continued help in allowing us to publicize the project. This has encouraged islanders to come forwards, which has been of immeasurable help to us. Our editors at Bloomsbury Academic have also been a pleasure to work with, and we would especially like to thank Emily Drewe and Frances Arnold.
Gilly Carr would like to thank Taylor and Francis for permission to reproduce an adapted part of the book chapter God save the King! Creative modes of protest, defiance and identity in Channel Islander internment camps in Germany, 19421945 in Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire, edited by Gilly Carr and Harold Mytum (2012). Paul Sanders would like to thank Inga and Eric Goldrein, and Jacques Semelin, for interviews granted in 2011 and 2013.
This project was made possible with the generous financial support of the British Academy, the Socit Jersiaise and the family of Joseph Gillingham.
