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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  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. Hansi Neumann flight - Wikipedia

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    The Hansi Neumann flight was the first flight to evacuate refugee children from Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Croydon, England, in January 1939, in the lead up to the Second World War. Part of the Czech kindertransport , it was completed in a Dutch Douglas aircraft of KLM , and organised by the Barbican Mission to Jewish People and the British ...

  7. 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.

  8. Evacuation of the Gibraltarian civilian population during ...

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    Monument to the evacuation of Gibraltarians on roundabout at N Mole Rd, Gibraltar. During World War II, the British government evacuated the majority of the civilian population of Gibraltar in 1940 in order to reinforce the territory with more military personnel, though civilians with essential jobs were permitted to stay.

  9. Evacuation (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Evacuation is a British children's reality television series presented by Matt Baker which was broadcast on CBBC between September 2006 and February 2008 where six boys and six girls from across the United Kingdom experienced living as evacuees in World War II.