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  2. Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II

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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.

  3. Children's Overseas Reception Board - Wikipedia

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    Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) group bound for New Zealand, 1940. 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.

  4. Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940

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    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.

  5. List of World War II evacuations - Wikipedia

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    World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour; Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government. Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army; Evacuation of ...

  6. Westward Ho! (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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    Westward Ho! is a 1940 British public information film about the evacuation of children during the Second World War, directed by Thorold Dickinson.At the time, evacuation was a controversial policy, and the film was produced with the aim of building support for it.

  7. SS City of Benares - Wikipedia

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    SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. [1] During the Second World War, City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to transport 90 children from Britain to Canada.

  8. List of mass evacuations - Wikipedia

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    July to September 2017 – Evacuation of Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, resulted in 35,616 people under evacuation order or alert over 77 days due to a record-setting wildfire season, with 996,141 hectares burnt in 232 fires, and 60 homes and 167 other structures destroyed over 48,099 km 2. No deaths were recorded. [35]

  9. Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II

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    Further evacuation of 160,000 children from London and relocation of children who had been settled near vulnerable coastal areas. [ 6 ] Winston Churchill gives a series of famous speeches in Parliament: " Blood, toil, tears, and sweat ", " We shall fight on the beaches " and " This was their finest hour ."