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Child's ration book. 1 January – World War II: Britain calls up 2,000,000 19- to 27-year-olds for military service. 3 January – Unity Mitford, daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and fervent admirer of Adolf Hitler, having attempted suicide, returns to England from Germany (via Switzerland); she is carried down the gangplank of the cross-channel ferry at Folkestone on a ...
Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 (81 P) Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945 (90 P) Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 (138 P)
19 – 28 June 1940 25,000 Channel Island refugees arrive in England. 30 June 1940 German occupation of the Channel Islands begins. July 1940 A further 60,000 schoolchildren evacuated from London and the Home Counties in the following 12 months. [6] 3 July 1940 Cardiff is bombed for the first time. 6 July 1940 Plymouth is bombed for the first time.
1940 Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election; 1940 Newcastle upon Tyne West by-election; 1940 Northampton by-election; 1940 Norton Fitzwarren rail crash; 1940 Nottingham Central by-election; November 1940 Southampton by-election
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For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Interwar Britain, United Kingdom home front during World War II, Military History of the United Kingdom during World War II, Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979),
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