The island’s French honorary consul is today due to help commemorate Charles de Gaulle’s famous rallying cry of resistance against German forces.
A service is set to take place at the memorial in the corner of the St Helier Marina at noon.
Pierre Chays, who became the island’s French Honorary Consul last year, explained that the proceedings would commemorate the “Appel du 18 juin 1940”, a speech given by former French president and general Charles de Gaulle.
In the famous BBC radio broadcast, which is associated with the beginnings of the French resistance, De Gaulle sought to reassure his people that “this war is not over”.
A separate service, commemorating the life and story of Francois Scornet – a young French resistant executed by a Nazi firing squad in Jersey in 1941 – is also due to take place today, at St Ouen’s Manor at 18:30.