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Story
Goegnies-Chaussée is a border village on the road from Bavay to Binche, where German troops retreated via Bois Bourdon. ...
The Cheval Blanc crossroads is a strategic point south of Mons. It is the crossroads of two essential roads for the bell...
Landmark
On the evening of September 2, the 3rd AD headquarters moved into the château de Warelles. ...
The Ciply roadblock is controlled by two Tank Destroyers covering the Rue Brunehault in Mesvin, and two others supportin...
Gabriel Ottelet is an accountant at the Citroën garage on rue d'Havré, Mons. Refractory to forced labor in Germany, by d...
On September 2, at around 6.15pm, a column of 3rd AD tanks from Nouvelles entered Mesvin via the rue du cimetière (now t...
Monument
The Combined Operations Memorial at Warsash commemorates the embarkation point for the Commando Units and those of the...
Battlefield
The first real confrontation between Poles and Germans on Zeeland territory took place at the Bonte Koe (Pied Cow), a ha...
The pub house located on the High Street, Southwick Village was the unofficial Navy, Army and Airforce Institute (NAAF...
Cemetery
Deeply frustrated by their captivity, 152 men and women are known to have escaped from Jersey during the German Occupa...
Dorothea Weber, at great risk to herself, hid her Jewish friend Hedwig Bercu-Goldenberg in her terraced house at 7, We...
The twinning of towns after the Second World War helped unite and heal a war-torn Europe. In 2002, the parish of St He...
On this site stood Albert Bedane’s home and physiotherapy surgery where, at great risk to himself, he sheltered a Jewi...
In September 1942, Adolf Hitler demanded the deportation of all English-born residents of the Channel Islands. This wa...
On the southern wall of the church nave is a memorial plaque to Guernseyman Canon Clifford Cohu, who was the rector of...
This memorial tablet, installed in 1995, marks the location of the former Newgate Street Prison – otherwise known as G...
The Swedish Red Cross ship SS Vega visited the Channel Islands six times with lifesaving food parcels and medical suppli...
Liberation Square in St Helier was officially opened as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. The principal buildin...
During the German Occupation the Pomme D’Or Hotel was the German Naval Headquarters. A large swastika flag hung from its...
Led by Leslie Huelin and Norman Le Brocq, the Jersey Communist Party (JCP) first met in late 1943 at 19, Peirson Road, S...
Museum
Jersey’s Maritime Museum, which occupies two large granite goods stores dating from the late 1800s, sits on the New Nort...
The mighty Tudor stronghold of Elizabeth Castle dominates the entrance to St. Helier Harbour from its rocky islet in St....
Standing immediately outside the Maritime Museum, on the New North Quay of St. Helier Harbour, is the Lighthouse Memoria...
Beside the Elizabeth Marina is Richard Perry’s Freedom Tree, which was unveiled by HM Queen Elizabeth II on the 60th ann...