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AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 31 Aug 2010 17:43

Do you, like me, read the memorials that people put on the backs of benches in memory of their loved ones? I saw an interesting one on the promenade near St Aubin in Jersey.

"In Honour of Denis Vibert who, on the night of 21st September, 1941 during the occupation of Jersey by German forces set off from the shore below in an eight foot boat, an offence bearing the German death penalty, and, as his engine failed when off Guernsey, rowed to England, where he joined the Royal Air Force as a bomber pilot."

What a pity it doesn't say if he survived the war or not but I wonder if he is anyone on here's ancestor?

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

jerseylily

jerseylily Report 31 Aug 2010 19:40

I believe Denis was the only person to succesfully escape from the island during the Occupation. He joined the RAF and flew Wellingtons. After the war he moved to Maine in the USA and died aged 85 in 2004.

Researching:
Basébé, Butcher, Johnson, Dubber (London) Milford (Devon and Cornwall) Shardlow, Hague, Holmes, Capenhurst (Derbyshire) Smith, Jennnings, Keylock, Bullock (Gloucestershire)

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 31 Aug 2010 21:17

JerseyLily, thank you for that, it is good to know he survived the war. What a feat though to row from Guernsey to UK!
I wonder why he didn't return to Jersey?

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin