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23 August 1944
Summary
Shipping and convoy movements. Supplies and rationing
Location Details
Jersey; Guernsey; St Helier; Cézembre
Diary Entry
23-25 August 1944
Battery Strasbourg, Guernsey, and 5./1265, Jersey, drove off an enemy destroyer and two motor torpedo boats attacking German craft on the Guernsey-Jersey route. The German boats entered St Helier undamaged. The diary also records repeated supply voyages from Jersey to the isolated Battery Ile de Cezembre, carrying ammunition, weapons, fuel, water, medical supplies and a doctor, and returning with wounded men. [T-1022/2175, scans 0214-0229]
Source of Information
T-1022 Rolls 2174–2175, Admiral Channel Coast. Source section in Version 1.74.
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