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The UK Ministry of Health advertised the evacuation programme through posters, among other means. The poster depicted here was used in the London Underground.. The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.
The Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation. [1] The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II. This was during a critical period in British history, between July and ...
The evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940 was an organised, partial, nautical evacuation of Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands, primarily from Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney to Great Britain during World War II. The evacuation occurred in phases, starting with school aged children, their teachers, and mother volunteers ...
Evacuation from Crimea during the Crimea Campaign. Evacuations during the Siege of Leningrad. Operation Ke, Japanese evacuation from Guadalcanal, Jan-Feb 1943. Japanese evacuation from Kiska, July 1943. Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order to the Royal Italian Army over the Strait of Messina to Italy, 1943.
The military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945. The Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey are British Crown dependencies in the English Channel, near the coast of Normandy. The Channel Islands were the only de jure part of the ...
Kindertransport. For the play by Diane Samuels, see Kindertransport (play). The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi -controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939 during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
Maritime disaster. Cause. Torpedo. Deaths. 258. The SS City of Benares, a British steam passenger ship, sank on 17 September 1940. [1] The ship was en route to Montreal, Canada, then to Quebec City, and later to New York City. [1] She was carrying 406 people—209 crew, 6 convoy representatives, and 191 passengers, of whom 100 were children ...
September 1939 – The evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II; at the outset of World War II, London and major British cities were evacuated in preparation of the Blitz, with 1.5 million displaced in the first three days of the official evacuation. The final number of evacuees reached 3.75 million.