Guernsey Fire and Rescue Service of Guernsey and in 1935 a 1931 Albion Merryweather escape carrier was bought and named "Sarmia II". The equipment was relocated in 1935 to the Town Arsenal, buildings previously used by the Royal Guernsey Militia. "Sarnia II" has been preserved and is kept at the Guernsey Occupation Museum. In 1939 Guernsey Airport was opened and a Morris Commercial fire truck was supplied, to be manned by airport staff if the need arose. Four Austin trucks were also acquired just in time for the bombing of Guernsey and the German occupation of the Channel Islands during which time a German officer
History of the Jews in Guernsey identified in Guernsey and Sark Marianne Grunfeld, born in Poland in 1912, had studied horticulture at the University of Reading before going to work on a farm in Guernsey. She was identified in April 1942 as Jewish. Theresia Steiner, an Austrian, non-practising Jew, who had come to the Islands from England and become trapped in the Islands by the invasion as she had been detained as an alien, amongst 30 enemy aliens who were arrested and detained in June 1940. She didn't have a UK visa to go to the UK as required for immigrants from Germany and Austria (from