Channel Islander

Among the British there was a large number of the Channel Islanders.

I wonder if the Manxmen and the Channel Islanders understood that in 1950!

This had amounted to collective blanket claims against Channel Islanders for their supposedly collaborationist wartime record.

For years the behavior of the Channel Islanders during the German occupation has been a proud footnote in Britain's history.

The ratio was 20 Channel Islanders to be interned for every one German interned.

Nearly 2,000 Channel Islanders were to be deported during World War II.

As the German army moved through France, some 30,000 Channel Islanders (one third of the total population) were evacuated in June 1940.

Channel Islanders and Manx people are British citizens and hence European citizens.

In April 1944 Laufen held 459 British internees (417 Channel islanders) and 120 Americans.

While they are popular with visitors from France, Channel Islanders rarely visit them as there are no direct transport links from the other islands.

Committees of émigré Channel Islanders elsewhere in the British Empire also banded together to provide relief for evacuees.

The Channel islanders also joined in the Churchill's V sign campaign by daubing the letter 'V' (for Victory) over German signs.

On the 16th, the mighty delta was due to leave her home at Waddington, Lincs, for the Channel Islanders and their Battle of Britain displays.

Saint Helier is twinned (since 2002) with Bad Wurzach, where numbers of deported Channel Islanders were interned.

Channel Islanders are not British subjects but these self-governing islands have an enduring connection with their northerly neighbour, and they produced some notable defiance of the occupying forces.

Many scholars of World War II dismiss the assumption that the Channel Islanders' conduct can be a basis for extrapolating how an occupied Britain would have behaved.

When King Charles I created three fellowships for Channel Islanders at Jesus College, Oxford in 1636, Brevint was chosen from Jersey.

Along with all other interned Channel Islanders, Lingshaw was repatriated to RAF Hendon, not to the Channel Islands, and there his wartime collaboration became known.

Manxmen, like Channel Islanders, are not technically covered by the rights of the freedom of movement of workers and, therefore, have no automatic right to work or start a business within mainland Europe.

The genuine nexus of the issue is not 'collaboration', but the subalternity of Channel Islanders, combined with the emotionally charged and identity-constituting memory of the Occupation (plus its associated narrative).

Around 2,000 Channel Islanders were interned in Germany as a reprisal for the deportation of German nationals from the Kingdom of Iran to Camp 10 in Loveday, South Australia.

A brief naval battle was fought between Channel Islanders in coastal and fishing vessels and Italian galleys, but despite two of the Italian ships being sunk the Islanders were defeated with heavy casualties.

Under Irish law, all British citizens-including Manx people and Channel Islanders who are not entitled to take advantage of the European Union's freedom of movement provisions-are exempt from immigration control and immune from deportation.

British passports issued by the Guernsey Government to people who are regarded as 'Channel Islanders or Manxmen' under Protocol 3 of the Treaty of Rome will have an endorsement included to the following effect:

In April 1944 the count of internees in Laufen included 459 British internees (417 Channel Islanders) and 120 American civilians who had been trapped in Europe when war was suddenly declared in December 1941.