Vale evacuees meet again 70 years on

Tuesday 22nd June 2010, 2:22PM BST.

Vale School evacuees meet again last night. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0987694)

VALE evacuees met last night to remember the 70th anniversary of their departure from Guernsey.

An estimated 420 children, aged between four and 14, were evacuated from the parish on 21 June 1940.

Within days, an estimated 6,000 children from across the island had left for the UK.

Many, like 79-year-old Stan Bugh, aged nine when he left with his older brother and younger sister, never returned after Liberation.

‘Today is a very special occasion for me because I stood in the middle of the road where my father waved us off.

‘That was the last time I ever saw him because he died during the Occupation,’ said Mr Bugh.

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