Apart From The Five Years Of German

Occupation This Light, From St Catherines

Breakwater, Shone Brightly For Over One

Hundred Years To Warn Seaman Of Danger

 

Today It Stands As A Monument To Those

Islanders Who Died In Concentration

Camps Far From Their Island Home,

A Symbol Of Remembrance And

A Beacon Of Hope For The Future

 

This Memorial Was Unveiled By The Bailiff

Of Jersey, Sir Philip Bailhache

On 9th November 1996

 

In Memory Of

 

John Soyer 1901-1944

Taken From His Home And Imprisoned

In 1943, Escaped And Killed Fighting

With The French Resistance At Brehal

Near Countances, Normandy July 1944

 

Edward Peter Muels 1912-1944

Killed July 1944 While Being

Transported To A Camp In Germany

 

In Memorian

Between 1940 and 1945

More Than 300 Islanders Were Taken From Jersey

To Concentration Camps And Prisons

On The Continent

For Political Crimes Committed

Against The German Occupying Forces

 

This Memorial

Is Dedicated

To Those

Islanders Who

Never Returned

 

"Lest We Forget"

 

Canon Clifford Cohu

Arthur Dimmery

George Fox

Louisa Gould, Nee Le Druillenec

Edward Muels

John Soyer

Maurice Gould

James Houillebecq

Peter Bruce Johnson

Frank De Villio

William Marsh

John Whitley Nicole

Advocate Leonce L'Hermitte Ogier

Frederick Page

Clarence Claude Painter

Peter Edward Painter

Emile John Paisnel

Clifford Queree

Marcel Rossi, Jnr

June Sinclair

Joseph Tierney