August

This wasn’t a good month for Jersey air passengers, with one plane being washed into the sea while taking off and another being driven into a wall, killing two boys who had been watching it. Another couple of planes were delayed by hoax bomb threats, with one of them even turning back on its flight to the island.

But there was better news at Jersey Zoo, when a young boy fell into the gorilla enclosure and was looked after by the gorillas’ leader, who kept away the rest of the pack.

This was the month in which Jersey Railway ran its first services from St Helier to Corbiere, and also the month in which the telephone line between Jersey and the mainland was finally inaugurated, only for it to be cut off again less than a year later by German troops as the occupation began.