DEANE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES

This is a photograph taken in June 1903 of an Alderney cow.

According to Wikipedia:
Most of the pure-breed Alderney cattle were removed from the island to Guernsey in the summer of 1940, because the island was then occupied by the Germans (during World War 2) and it was difficult for the few remaining islanders to milk them. On Guernsey, the cattle were interbred with local breeds. The few pure-breed cattle remaining on Alderney were killed and eaten by the Germans in 1944.


The Alderney is mentioned in a verse of A. A. Milne's poem The King's Breakfast:

The Dairymaid
She curtsied,
And went and told
The Alderney:
"Don't forget the butter for
The Royal slice of bread."
The Alderney
Said sleepily:
"you'd better tell
His Majesty
That many people nowadays
Like marmalade
Instead."

Location: Alderney