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
Diarist and deacon Jen Chevalier dies
- Born in 1589, Jean Chevalier’s diaries describe life in Jersey at a time when the crown and the state were frequently at odds.
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Men receive five-year sentence for stealing apples and jam
- Three men were sentenced to five years in prison for stealing apples and jam from a house in St Helier.
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Islander makes and emergency landing
- An Islander aircraft set off from Jersey in bad weather and had to make an emergency landing after the engine started surging.
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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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