18th December 1991
Police reveals theft of Jersey’s war achives
Although the theft was discovered in the November, it took until December 1991 for the files’ removal from the States Building to be made public. They’d been taken over a two-month period and offered for sale in Europe and the US. Police recovered more than 90% of the files through a two-year investigation, but authorities can’t be certain that none of their contents were removed.
Further papers turned up in Guernsey in 2013, bringing the recovered proportion up to 95%. The files, which had originally been kept in the Bailiff’s chambers throughout and after the war, are now looked after by the Jersey Archive.
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Other events that occured in December
Father Clifford Cohu is born
- Fr Clifford Cohu was a retired priest in Jersey during the Occupation. He was deported in 1943 for sharing BBC news.
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Jersey elects first woman to States Assembly
- In 1948, Ivy Foster became the first woman elected to serve in Jersey's States Assembly, although she was not the first to try.
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Photographer Claude Cahun dies in St Helier
- Claud Cahun was a French photographer and sculptor who settled in Jersey with her step sister, and remained throughout the war.
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263 Squadron bomber is shot down at St Brelade
- A bomber attached to 263 Squadron based in Dorset was shot down over St Brelade, Jersey, in December 1942.
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