Service remembers forced labourers of the Occupation
AROUND 50 Alderney residents and visitors gathered at the Hammond Memorial to remember the forced labourers who died on the island during its occupation in the Second World War.
The service was led by representatives of all the island's faiths and States of Alderney President Stuart Trought was one of those laying a wreath to honour those who died far from home.
Attendees were invited to remember 'prisoners forced to labour in extreme conditions of hardship, deprivation and cruelty; those who died and those who returned to their homes bearing the mental and physical scars of those years of torment'.
Prayers were said for those who were currently suffering because of wars being waged around the world.
Sisters Patsy Martel and Sally Bohan, whose family built the memorial after the loss of family members overseas during the First World War, also laid wreaths.
