GUERNSEY POLICE

 

Having reported for duty during an enemy air raid at St. Peter Port, he was tending to a seriously injured man at the harbour when a bomb exploded nearby and he was struck in the head by shrapnel and fatally injured.

 

His name was entered on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Civilian War Dead Roll.
 

'Chipper' Bougourd had completed seven years service in the Guernsey Police;
he is the only member of the force known to have been killed in the line of duty.

He was survived by his wife and son.