Fortunately he survived. "When Steve Matthews and his family were forced to leave Guernsey in September 1942 for a Nazi prison camp his mother told him they were going on holiday. Aged four, he embarked on a journey through occupied France to an abandoned prisoner of war camp in Dorsten, ending at an internment camp in Biberach, southern Germany. The first of more than 2,000 non-native Channel Islanders were deported to camps in southern Germany 75 years ago. The process was a direct retaliation by Hitler after British forces interned German nationals in Persia (modern-day Iran)." Man recalls Nazi prison camp deportation
Among those deported from Jersey in this operation were some fifty British conscientious objectors who, in fulfilment of conditions of alternative service, had gone to the Isand in May 1940 to help with tomato and potato crops, traditional labour being unavaliable because of the exigencies of the war.