ABSTRACT
St. Ouen’s Bay on the Island of Jersey in the English Channel is situated at the west of the Island. There is no land mass between St. Ouens Bay and the United States of America and this part of the island’s coast line, is therefore susceptible to the full force of the Atlantic waves. A sea defence wall had been in place at St. Ouen’s Bay since the 19th Century but during the Second World War, the German Occupation Forces constructed two additional lengths of defence wall. These were primarily as anti tank defences, rather than as protection of the coastline from erosion by the sea.
1.2 Historical context
