25th November 1920
Edinburgh man is killed in Jersey quarry
Alexander Mackintosh survived the First World War and was awarded the Mons Star for service in France and Belgium. Yet the 25-year-old Edinburgh man was killed in a landslide at St Aubin’s quarry, having come to Jersey in search of work.
He wasn’t the first to suffer such a fate. A man had been killed and his mate injured excavating a hill that collapsed on them and, in 1873, French labourer Pierre Audrin was killed while excavating stone for repairing roads. He’d been working in the quarry on his own and lay dead under a large pile of stone for two hours before being discovered.
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Other events that occured in November
Jersey college principal is killed
- Thirty-four-year-old George Stanley Farnell, who was the principal of Victoria College, was found dead in a small cave at Plemont.
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Jersey is struck by unusually low tides
- The tide was so low on the morning of 25 November 1909 that the mailboat couldn’t dock, leaving passengers stranded onboard.
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Dispute breaks out over ownership of a road
- Mademoiselle de Carteret claimed ownership of a street running off it at the Royal Court, along with her private right to use it.
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Jersey concentration camp prisoner Gordon Prigent is born
- Gordon Prigent was born in St Helier in 1924 and during the occupation was sent to deported to Alderney.
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