1st March 1945
Jersey’s occupation bailiff is knighted
Coincidentally, on the day Lingshaw was sentenced for his treachery, it was announced in the London Gazette that Alexander Coutanche, bailiff throughout the occupation, had been knighted in recognition of his service to the island.
Coutanche was again recognised in the 1961 Birthday Honours, when he was made a life peer and given the title Baron Coutanche of St Brelade in the Island of Jersey and of the City of Westminster.
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Other events that occured in March
Occupying forces mount desperate raid on Granvillle
- Occupying forces mounted a raid on the French port of Granville when their own stocks started to run down at the end of the war.
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Missing banker is discovered in a Jersey cave
- A banker from Glasgow was missing for two weeks before his body was discovered in the Pirate Cave at Corbiere.
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Jersey Railway services restart
- Jersey once had a railway running the length of the south coast, from Corbière to Gorey Pier. It was later amalgamated with its rival.
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Sir Stephen Dalton is appointed Lieutenant Governor
- Sir Stephen Dalton was born in Leicester and pursued a military career that culminated in an appointment as Jersey’s 42nd Lieutenant Governor
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