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The evacuation of schoolchildren from Guernsey
Edited transcript of a taped interview with Herbert Nicholls

I was at school and we went to the schools three times and there was no transport turned up, our head he said make sure you come, he said the next transport will be five o’clock in the morning, and of course we never turned up, and there was like my mother with all the six children, and of course the busses came, and all the kiddies went, three boys, three girls. I’m seventy five now, and the youngest daughter is sixty two I think, and that was it, there was no more after that. I left school at thirteen and I went to work for the Star, the Guernsey Star, a newspaper, and I started three days after my thirteenth birthday. I had to have a special pass to leave school then because leaving school was fourteen.
I was at the Catel School. We were only a few months at school, and we were thrown out of the school on account of the troops wanted the school for storing ammunition and there was a big ak-ak battery there by the school. They took over different houses and they made up a school and we were at a place called the Haye-du-Puits

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