My father, Michael Halliwell, who has died aged 96, was a Church of England clergyman in Jersey who devoted much of his life to promoting Anglo-German friendship.
His mission derived largely from his childhood in Jersey, where he was born to Arthur, a surgeon, and his wife, Dorothea (nee Goode). An idyllic childhood there was shattered in 1940 when the children and their mother were evacuated to Somerset to avoid the German occupation during the second world war.
