Hundreds gather to see evacuation plaque unveiled
Monday 10th May 2010, 2:29PM BST.
Bailiff Sir Geoffrey Rowland, right of the new plaque, and the Dean of Guernsey, the Very Rev. Canon Paul Mellor, to its left, with the group of visiting mayors at Saturday’s unveiling ceremony at North Beach. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0965957)
SOME 200 people gathered on Saturday for the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the evacuation of civilians at the start of the Second World War.
The service on North Beach was opened by Bailiff Sir Geoffrey Rowland.
His parents were among those evacuated ahead of German Occupation of the Bailiwick.
‘About 20,000 people left the island over a three- or four-day period,’ he said. ‘We have to remember people had to leave behind their homes and possessions and for the most part go into the unknown, just hoping to come back.’
The Dean of Guernsey, the Very Rev. Canon Paul Mellor, gave a bible reading as well a short address.
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