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 Communist Party Deputy dies
- Norman Le Brocq was a founder of the Jersey Communist Party and one of 20 locals awarded watches for aiding prisoners of war during the occupation.
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Ian Hislop’s Jersey connection revealed
- Presenter, writer and editor Ian Hislop discovered that he had connections to Jersey on the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are?
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Contact 94 goes off the air
- Radio station Contact 94 broadcast from France but went off the air when the chance to apply for a licence in the Channel Islands came up.
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Fort Regent construction work begins
- Fort Regent was built at one of the highest point of Jersey, where it could keep watch over St Helier and the harbour.
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