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. It was broadcast by the BBC on 24 April 1942. He was instrumental in the founding of the Guernsey Society in 1943, as well as the publication of Nos Iles by the Channel Islands Study Group, following a symposium in Oxford in 1944. Sir Donald served as Chairman of the Guernsey Society from its formation in 1943 until the end of 1946, when he was appointed Vice President. He was succeeded as chairman by Commander Esten De Jersey. Legacy In 2019, the States of Guernsey Blue Plaques Committee decided that a Blue Plaque in honour of Sir Donald Banks would be erected on his childhood home, 43 High Street in St Peter Port. It was due to be unveiled on 8 May 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bibliography Banks, TM and Chell RA, With the 10th Essex in France, 1921 Channel Islands Study Group, Nos Iles – A Symposium on the Channel Islands, Teddington, 1944 Banks, Sir Donald, Flame over Britain: A Personal Narrative of Petroleum Warfare, London 1946 Banks, Sir Donald, Sand and Granite, Review of the Guernsey Society, Spring 1967 - the text of the talk on the Channel Islands that the BBC broadcast on 24 April 1942. Banks, Sir Donald, Across the Channel - the Memoirs of Major-General Sir Donald Banks (Blue Ormer, 2020) References External links British Army Officers 1939−1945 Generals of World War II 1891 births 1975 deaths British Army major generals People educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey Guernsey people Commanders of the Legion of Merit Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Air Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Middlesex Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War I British Army generals of World War II Civil servants in the Exchequer and Audit Department