Liberation Day Archives - Channel Eye https://channeleye.media/tag/liberation-day/ Business & Lifestyle News in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man Mon, 12 May 2025 08:04:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://channeleye.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ce_favicon48px.png Liberation Day Archives - Channel Eye https://channeleye.media/tag/liberation-day/ 32 32 First soldier to liberate Nazi-occupied Guernsey, remembered 80 years later https://channeleye.media/first-soldier-to-liberate-nazi-occupied-guernsey-remembered-80-years-later/ Wed, 07 May 2025 08:50:38 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=62768 As Britain prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, the remarkable story of Sergeant-Major Robert Shaw – the first British serviceman to step onto Nazi-occupied British soil during liberation – is being commemorated by his family in Guernsey this May. On May 9th, 1945, as the rest of Britain celebrated victory in Europe, […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 7 May 2025 at 08:50 GMT.]]> Last American wartime workhorse travels 12,000 miles to bring closure for one Island family https://channeleye.media/last-american-wartime-workhorse-travels-12000-miles-to-bring-closure-for-one-island-family/ Wed, 07 May 2025 08:40:02 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=62765 Flying 12,000 miles, US based Commemorative Air Force has brought one of their period WW2 military aircraft back to Europe for 80th Anniversary Celebrations, and this includes their project ‘Bringing the Boys Home’. Volunteers have taken hundreds of British gravestone rubbings from men who lost their lives whilst wartime training in the USA and will […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 7 May 2025 at 08:40 GMT.]]> Can you help put first Guernsey Liberation soldier’s family in touch with Mr Rault’s family? https://channeleye.media/first-guernsey-liberation-soldiers-family-visiting-the-island/ Thu, 05 May 2022 08:20:56 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=35568 The family of the first British soldier to land on Guernsey soil after the liberation of the island, tell his story ahead of the VE day anniversary celebrations. Sergeant-Major Robert Shaw who was born in September 1915 in Springburn, Glasgow, was the first British soldier to land on Guernsey soil after the liberation of the […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 5 May 2022 at 08:20 GMT.]]> 1945-2022: Islanders to meet again for Liberation Day 77 https://channeleye.media/islanders-to-meet-again-for-liberation-day/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:55:39 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=34106 A street party, music, dancing, and local food stalls are among the events being planned to celebrate Liberation Day on 9th May 2022. To mark the occasion, the island will be decorated with miles of bunting featuring the Jersey and Union Flag, alongside the Liberation 77 and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee logo. The Liberation 75 […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 1 March 2022 at 12:55 GMT.]]> St Aubin welcomes vintage car parade on Liberation Day https://channeleye.media/st-aubin-welcomes-vintage-car-parade-on-liberation-day/ Sun, 09 May 2021 12:29:06 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=27267&preview=true&preview_id=27267 The Jersey Old Motor Club cavalcade were greeted with waves and flags as they drove into St Aubin on Liberation Day. The club members congregated with their ‘old motors’, which date prior to 1951, in St Helier’s Broad Street and up to the Town Hall before the Connetable of St. Helier, Simon Crowcroft, raised the […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 9 May 2021 at 12:29 GMT.]]> ArtHouse Jersey presents ‘Seventy six steps’ – a specially commissioned Liberation 76 dance https://channeleye.media/arthouse-jersey-presents-seventy-six-steps/ Fri, 07 May 2021 06:15:38 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=27207 ArtHouse Jersey announces the release of their extraordinary, specially commissioned Liberation 76 dance piece ‘Seventy Six Steps’, featuring the voices of Occupation survivors. Carolyn Rose Ramsay, a Jersey-based dancer from Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and the Norwegian National Ballet, set about enlisting five talented local dancers to create a one-off […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 7 May 2021 at 06:15 GMT.]]> Event 09 May: How and where to view the vintage car parade on Liberation Day https://channeleye.media/event-09-may-how-and-where-to-view-the-vintage-car-parade-on-liberation-day/ Wed, 05 May 2021 04:01:23 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=27241 The Jersey Old Motor Club have organised a cavalcade on Liberation Day. The club members will congregate with their ‘old motors’, which date prior to 1951, in St Helier’s Broad Street and up to the Town Hall before the Connetable of St. Helier, Simon Crowcroft, raises the Club’s flag to send the cavalcade off at […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 5 May 2021 at 04:01 GMT.]]> Melrose commemorate Liberation Day through collaboration with Arts for Impact https://channeleye.media/melrose-commemorate-liberation-day-through-collaboration-with-arts-for-impact/ Tue, 04 May 2021 15:22:48 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=27136 The Ladies’ College Junior School, Melrose, has paid homage to the 76th anniversary of Liberation Day with a piece of collaborative artwork reflecting ‘freedom’. With the support of Helen Bonner-Morgan from Arts for Impact, each pupil from Reception to Year 6 has contributed a piece of artwork depicting what freedom means to them following their […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 4 May 2021 at 15:22 GMT.]]> Event 08 May: Lib Stream 2021 ‘Live virtual party from Mont Orgueil Castle’ https://channeleye.media/event-08-may-lib-stream-2021/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 14:26:07 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=26951 Liberation Day is fast approaching and in 2021 we celebrate 76 years of freedom for our island and its people. Returning this year on Liberation weekend is the much loved Lib Stream which debuted last year from the top balcony of Fort Regent, with views stretching across St Helier and the soundtrack provided by some […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 23 April 2021 at 14:26 GMT.]]> Can you nominate a Liberation legend? https://channeleye.media/can-you-nominate-a-liberation-legend/ Tue, 06 Apr 2021 04:03:54 +0000 https://channeleye.media/?p=26460 The Liberation Celebration Parcel Project aims to deliver 600 parcels to Occupation Veterans on the morning of Liberation Day this year. This lovely initiative that delivers liberation themed parcels to Occupation veterans returns for its second year. With only six weeks to go until the big day, Aaron Labey of Labey Limited, who sponsors the […]

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