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The letter form came with an envelope which seems to have been the one in which the first message was sent:
Included was a small information sheet, confusingly from Jersey, not Guernsey:
Perhaps the envelope and the information sheet were never associated with the letter form, but that still doesn't answer the question about the lack of a return address for the sender. Any ideas?
Bob
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Thank you, Anglophile. I wondered if there was a registry of people who wished to communicate with relatives and friends in the occupied Channel Islands. I hadn't considered the desire for privacy from prying Nazi eyes.
It's possible that Roy & Amelia had been caught in Chester at the time of the occupation, but here's a more specific scenario: They might have been among among the nearly 17,000 Channel Islanders (almost half the population) who were evacuated to Great Britain before the occupation.
The Jersey Bailiff notice is puzzling. I'm thinking that there might have been a central clearing house for these letters in Jersey.
Bob
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I'm guessing as usual - but I would think that the only way to get mail to Guernsey from Geneva would be via Germany - and that means the Military post ( no German civilian would write to Guernsey other than to a member of the military). I would suggest that the Bailiff would be the link between the States ( of Guernsey ) Government and the German commandant,and therefore it would be his staff who would deal with external mail.
It should be noted that as well as the Channel Island occupants who escaped to the UK, a number of them were deported by the Germans to mainland Europe for "forced labour", and Deportee Mail is also collected.
Malcolm
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I’m dealing right now with some Red Cross message forms that were used to help people in the Occupied Channel Islands to communicate with friends and relatives in Great Britain. Two of three have no return address but contain messages responding to the original message, and I don’t understand how they could have been delivered. Attached is an image of one of them.
The letter form came with an envelope which seems to have been the one in which the first message was sent:
Included was a small information sheet, confusingly from Jersey, not Guernsey:
Perhaps the envelope and the information sheet were never associated with the letter form, but that still doesn't answer the question about the lack of a return address for the sender. Any ideas?
Bob
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re: Occupied Channel Islands letter form
Thank you, Anglophile. I wondered if there was a registry of people who wished to communicate with relatives and friends in the occupied Channel Islands. I hadn't considered the desire for privacy from prying Nazi eyes.
It's possible that Roy & Amelia had been caught in Chester at the time of the occupation, but here's a more specific scenario: They might have been among among the nearly 17,000 Channel Islanders (almost half the population) who were evacuated to Great Britain before the occupation.
The Jersey Bailiff notice is puzzling. I'm thinking that there might have been a central clearing house for these letters in Jersey.
Bob
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08:05:23am
re: Occupied Channel Islands letter form
I'm guessing as usual - but I would think that the only way to get mail to Guernsey from Geneva would be via Germany - and that means the Military post ( no German civilian would write to Guernsey other than to a member of the military). I would suggest that the Bailiff would be the link between the States ( of Guernsey ) Government and the German commandant,and therefore it would be his staff who would deal with external mail.
It should be noted that as well as the Channel Island occupants who escaped to the UK, a number of them were deported by the Germans to mainland Europe for "forced labour", and Deportee Mail is also collected.
Malcolm
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