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3 unusual facts about Donald Banks


Donald Banks

Banks was born in Guernsey on 31 March 1891, the son of Thomas Brownsort Banks, a stationer, and Margaret Elizabeth (née Roebuck).

In 1942, he was approached by the Home Office to see if anything could be done to get over a reassuring message to the islanders, as it was known that, despite the fact that German authorities had banned radios, that the BBC was still being picked up secretly in Guernsey and Jersey.

Dawn's godmother was Princess Louise, as a result of Donald's command of the Kensington Regiment of the Territorial Army, of which she was patron.



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