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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.
While only 54 of 112 children of the Titanic died, [5] 98 of 123 children on the City of Benares were lost. [6] On the Lusitania 94 children were lost. The percentage of survival was even worse than that of the Lusitania , with the Lusitania ' s survival rate being roughly 39 per cent, while the City of Benares ' survival rate being roughly 36 ...
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 ...
Unlike Japanese American internment, where families were generally kept together, Canada initially sent its male evacuees to road camps in the British Columbian interior, to sugar beet projects on the Prairies, or to internment in a POW camp in Ontario, while women and children were moved to six inland British Columbia towns.
Westward Ho! was thus conceived as a way of showing the importance of evacuation, encouraging support for the policy and reassuring parents about the procedures that were in place. [5] Production of the film was finished quickly, with the film receiving its premiere at the Dominion , on Tottenham Court Road , just two weeks after filming had begun.
Canadian Forces in World War II. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-302-0. [permanent dead link ] Ciment, James D. and Thaddeus Russell, eds. The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II (ABC-CLIO, 2006) Cook, Tim. Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King and Canada's World Wars (2012) 472pp online
The 12th SS Panzer Division of the Hitlerjugend was established later in World War II as Germany suffered more casualties, and more young people "volunteered", initially as reserves, but soon joined front line troops. These children saw extensive action and were among the fiercest and most effective German defenders in the Battle of Berlin. [11]