In December 1944, 11-year-old Jean Carson was pictured skipping along Gloucester Street clutching a precious Red Cross parcel.
The picture shows her on the right, next to her father Albert (in trilby hat) and her cousins and a friend of her father.
Yesterday, 61 years later, she posed in the same spot as her husband of some 50 years, Wally Giot, looked on.
The couple emigrated to Canada 40 years ago and come back to Jersey whenever they can.
The streetscape may have changed beyond recognition, and the volume of traffic may be scarier, but Mrs Giot’s features and smile were still clearly recognisable, even though more than 60 years had elapsed between poses.
Photographer Tony Pike set up the shot after bumping into Mr and Mrs Giot when he took a picture of Woolworths’ Liberation window display.
Mrs Giot said: ‘I asked him if he remembered the photograph of me and my father and whether the JEP still had it, as I’d had some copies done when we came back to Jersey for the 50th anniversary.’ Mr Pike located the photograph and set up the recreation.
Mrs Giot said that she did not remember a great deal about the events leading up the photograph, but she still has a faded, yellowed copy of the paper it first appeared in.
‘But I remember opening the parcel.
I just wanted to eat the chocolate, but my mother said I could only have a little piece and she broke a bit off and gave it to me.
To us children, the chocolate meant more than anything.’ Mrs Giot even managed to get an original Red Cross parcel to pose with.
Still packed with original tins and packages, albeit empty, it was a poignant reminder of hard times.
Ironically, the parcels were a gift of the Canadian government, and Mr Giot said that through their work at home in Ottawa they had met a woman who packed the parcels sent to Jersey.
Last year Mr and Mrs Giot received an award for 20 years service to the Canadian volunteer service.
They specialise in presenting slide shows about Jersey, in particular the Occupation and Liberation anniversaries.
