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The WW2 headteacher who saved an entire generation of boys – then quietly tried to resign

When Nazi forces swept across northern France in the summer of 1940, the States of Guernsey appeared convinced the Channel would protect the island. But the headmaster of Elizabeth College, the Revd William Henry Milnes MC, believed the threat was much closer than people thought. A six-foot-four former First World War combat pilot, he was […]

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