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For Alderney, there was no Liberation as is remembered and celebrated by Islanders in Guernsey, Sark and Jersey as all Alderney residents were evacuated in June 1940 and the island housed the only Concentration Camp on British Soil.
After spending over five years on mainland Britain, on December 15th 1945 the Alderney islanders finally began to return home. On their return they found their homeland changed forever. The island had been ransacked and looted and the years that followed were hard times where they struggled to rebuild their homes and their community.
Every
year, the islanders come together to celebrate Homecoming Day with a
church service and the laying of a wreath under a brass plaque at the
courthouse with the famous words of Judge French calling the islanders
to assemble ready to evacuate the island in June 1940.
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