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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.
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.
London schoolchildren being evacuated to the west of England. On 28 September 1938, the London County Council (LCC) began to evacuate the first children from London to places in the country which were thought to be safer. The first contingent was made up of 1,200 nursery-school children and 3,100 physically disabled children.
35% of London schoolchildren had returned from evacuation. [6] 8 January 1940 First food rationing introduced. May to June 1940 Further evacuation of 160,000 children from London and relocation of children who had been settled near vulnerable coastal areas. [6]
Young refugees of the first Kindertransport after their arrival at Harwich, Essex, in the early morning of 2 December 1938 Jewish refugee children on their arrival in London on the Warszawa 1939 issued Identity Document for travelling to the UK, used by a child on the Kindertransport Hope Square plaque
The central character, George (Elliott Heffernan), is a 9-year-old boy with a downbeat, sly-eyed look who, early on, joins the more than 500,000 children who are being evacuated from London.
In the context of preparations for war, a Camps Act was passed in April 1939, which provided for the construction of government-financed camps for use as educational holiday centres for children during peacetime, and as camps for evacuees during war. [2] The Act prompted the creation of the National Camps Corporation to oversee these camps. [3]
Memorial in Saint Peter Port: "This plaque commemorates the evacuation of children and adults ahead of the occupation of the island by German forces in June 1940. Four-fifths of the children and altogether almost half the population of Guernsey were transported to England so that scarcely a family was undivided. À la perchoine."