Pete Baker said the post box on Fort Road was hit by RAF bombs during the Second World War.
He said he had been told about the damage by his father, Jim, who ran a grocery shop in Fountain Street, and had been 14 when the war started and too old to be evacuated.
‘It’s a relic of the Occupation.
‘If you have a close look at it, it’s basically got shell holes in it,’ he said.
‘If you look at the north face, which is the side facing Havelet, you can see the four or five actual bullet marks.’
Mr Baker said that the attack occurred sometime in May 1944.
‘The RAF, among their many other raids, raided Fort George,’ he said.
‘They dropped a bomb at the top of the Val des Terres which left a big crater, and killed a soldier who was on duty there.
‘The houses along Fort Road had to be evacuated because they were damaged as well.
‘The German officers who were in then got moved down to Havelet, and the Guernsey people who lived there got shunted somewhere else.’
He added that the raid was recorded in the book Battle of Newlands: The Wartime Diaries of Winifred Harvey.
Mr Baker, who is now conducting further research at the Priaulx Library to find out more about the night of the attack, said he understood Guernsey Post’s decision to close about two-thirds of the island’s 141 boxes.
‘You can’t disagree with the closure of some of the post boxes,’ he said.
‘But even if they closed it as a post box, which is perfectly understandable, I think that they should preserve the structure and put a little notice by it so that people can see it.’
The Guernsey Post post box consultation runs until 12 September.
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