When were the children evacuated in World War 2?
far and wide ,perhaps not .some went to Cornwall,Devon,and counties in the middle of the country that were not involved in making arms or equipment It was an upheaval for many children for they were not always treated well but I suppose in the main it did stop a lot of children from being hurt. I was 10 years old and living in the east end of London, and the Blitz started late August 1940 until round about May 1941, I will never forget those days and when I hear the sirens sound in films on television I go cold.
In 1939 the British government divided the UK into three types of areas: urban areas from which children were to be evacuated (e.g. the County of London and the adjoining county boroughs of Croydon, East Ham, and West Ham), neutral areas (such as most of the rest of Greater London) from which children were not evacuated, but were not judged safe enough to evacuate anyone to, and reception areas (the rest of the country, almost all of it rural) to which the evacuees were sent. As I lived in Tolworth, near Kingston, a “neutral area” I stayed put. The flying bomb and rocket campaign, started in June 1944 targeted the whole of Greater London and a few channel ports.Although these all now became “evacuation areas”, the evacuees were not sent exclusively to rural areas, but also to cities in the North, as the government considered that, this late in the war, the Germans were almost certain to continue their concentration on the southeast and would not bomb provincial cities anymore. This was
The evacuation of children in Britain WW2 began from the outbreak (declaration) of war against Germany, following the unprovoked Nazi attack upon the peaceful nation and British ally of Poland. About 2-million children were evacuated. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/chi… Children at War – BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhist… More evacuation links. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/eva… Primary sources of useful information. Imperial War Museum London http://www.iwm.org.uk/ This next link has masses of info about WW2 from 1939 – 1945 http://www.highlan
