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
Fire service cleans up corrosive spill at the power station
- A corrosive spill at the power station managed to eat through two pumps before it could all be gathered up and safely contained.
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Bailiff Cecil Stanley Harrison is born
- Cecil Stanley Harrison was Bailiff of Jersey and had earlier played a role in the trial that had resulted in the island's last execution.
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Jersey-set film Danger Route opens
- Danger Route told the story of a Second World War plot to knock off British scientists, masterminded in Jersey.
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Agent ZigZag is born
- Spy Eddie Chapman double-crossed the Germans during World War Two, earning himself the name Agent ZigZag.
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