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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.
The military history of Gibraltar during World War II exemplifies Gibraltar's position as a British fortress from the early-18th century onwards and as a vital factor in British military strategy, both as a foothold on the continent of Europe, and as a bastion of British sea power. [1]
Military history of Gibraltar during World War II • Timeline of events • A Catalina flies by the North Front of the Rock as it leaves Gibraltar on a patrol, 1942 (Imperial War Museum) Late 1939 Construction of a solid surface runway begins in Gibraltar. 9 Sep 1939 No. 202 Squadron RAF is ordered to Gibraltar. 25 Sep 1939
The Gibraltar House of Assembly (now the Gibraltar Parliament), established in 1969. Spanish border pass for Gibraltarian residents, permitting day visits only. Although Gibraltar's civilian inhabitants had started to return as early as April 1944, the last evacuees did not arrive back home until as late as February 1951.
The evacuation of the Gibraltarian civilian population during World War II is commemorated in a monument at Waterport Road, Gibraltar Sir Joshua Hassan, longest running leader of the AACR and Chief Minister of Gibraltar for 18 years. The outbreak of World War II in 1939 put an early end to the beginnings of self-government in Gibraltar.
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.
Operation Tracer was based in Gibraltar, the British territory and then fortress at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. [1] [2] The facility that was constructed for the top secret, World War II military operation was located near the southern end of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, in close proximity to Lord Airey's Battery. [2] [3] [4]
Tito Benady, a historian on Gibraltar Jewry, noted that when some 200 Jews of the 2000 evacuees from Gibraltar were evacuated as non combatants to Funchal, Madeira, at the start of World War II, they found a Jewish cemetery (Jewish Cemetery of Funchal) that belonged to the Abudarham family. The same family after whom the Abudarham Synagogue in ...