Commissioner Helen Clifton and General Shaw Clifton were moved by their visit to Guernsey over the Liberation weekend. (0868662)

THE international leader of the Salvation Army was deeply moved by his visit to the Bailiwick over Liberation Day.

General Shaw Clifton and Commissioner Helen Clifton, who is World President of the Salvation Army’s Women’s Ministries, oversee the Christian church and charity’s work in 120 countries.

But they were in Guernsey at the weekend and said it would prove a very memorable stay, after General Clifton spoke at a United Festival at Clifton Hall on Saturday night and the Community Service at St James on Sunday morning.

‘I found it deeply affecting and emotional to hear people speak of the difficult days they went through and I saw portrayed vivid images of the Occupation, which helped me realise again what they tolerated,’ he said.

‘It was very powerful and I felt a mix of anger about it but also a strong sense of regard for the huge dignity the islanders manifested and that same dignity today in the way they look back on it.’

• Read the full story in the Guernsey Press. See below for subscription details.