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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.
During the Second World War, City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to transport 90 children from Britain to Canada. German submarine U-48 sank her by torpedoes in September 1940 with the loss of 260 people out of a complement of 408, [2] [3] including the death of 77 of the evacuated children.
The programme allowed children evacuated to the host countries from the UK, due to bombing during World War II, to talk with their parents. [4] The series continued, with various permutations of the involved networks, until at least 31 May 1944. [5] The journalist Mark Lawson identifies it as the first example of co-production. [4]
Most of the children were wearing not their kapok vests, but, as a survivor later put it, the "perfectly horrible" life-belts. [2] [12] She was relieved that the children had paid attention to the drills. [2] She found the doctor, Margaret Zeal (age 30), who began helping Day to pull children (mostly girls) from the damaged cabins.
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.
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The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war , most combat was centred in Italy , [ 1 ] Northwestern Europe, [ 2 ] and the North Atlantic.
A Palestinian toddler who doctors say only has days to live without urgent medical treatment was evacuated from Gaza by the Jordanian military on Monday, in a special mission after Israel had ...