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
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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Spy Philippe d’Auvergne is born in Jersey
- Philippe d’Auvergne was a mariner who was on the cusp of inheriting a fortune and a title when France put its foot down and said 'no'.
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Jersey gets the roller-skating bug
- Crowds took to the floor of a rink at West Park Pavilion as they kept warm through winter by roller skating.
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Admiral Thomas Gosselin dies in Jersey
- Admiral Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin was born in 1765 and died in Jersey on 27 November 1857 after an impressive career in the navy.
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