A COUPLE who shared a school desk at the age of six celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary this week with family, friends and champagne.

Henri and Doris Le Luyer were married on 21 December 1945.

‘We were married on the 21st and were both 21 at the time, but we first met when we were six,’ said Henri, as he held his wife’s hand.

Though Henri was born in France, he moved with his mother to Jersey in 1929.

They lived on Daisy Hill so Henri attended Hillgrove School in Gorey village, where he sat beside Jersey-born Doris Pollet, unaware she was to be his future wife.

During the war however, Doris went to Manchester to work in a munitions factory while Henri stayed in occupied Jersey and worked on a farm.

Henri considers himself to have been a Jack of all trades, having had a number of jobs, though never losing one or having been a day without work.

After the war Doris returned to the Island and worked for the home for boys, Haut de la Garenne.