Organisation was so good that a quarter of an hour after the assembly the children were ready to move. Once inside their buses they talked happily with their parents through the windows. Bert had them all right, with his gas mask. Within eleven minutes after the arrival by District Railway at Wimbledon, children from Merton Road School Southfields and Wandsworth School were in a main line train station on their way to an undisclosed destination. One thousand children are being evacuated from the Chelsea area.
The dexterity with which the children were shepherded through crowds of morning workers at Waterloo Station was a perfect piece of organisation. Police wearing armlets and LCC school officials saw that an avenue to their platform was kept entirely free for the children.
Little tots smiled gleefully and boys whistled and exchanged jokes. One boy, carrying a kitbag over his shoulder in true military style, kept humming to himself as he marched along.
Your children are going to have a happy holiday and don't worry. One little boy at Ealing Broadway Station, where 50, children entrained, had a bucket and spade with him. To cheer him up his mother had told him that he was going to the seaside. Actually, she did not know his destination.
Mr E Kingston of Vansittart Road, New Cross, who saw two of his children leave on the train said, 'It is the only sensible thing to do. I am not worrying. Hospital evacuation too, went off smoothly. Along the blue-windowed corridors of Saint Thomas's Hospital, past the carriage which Florence Nightingale used in the Crimea, teams of medical students wheeled patients who still require medical treatment but are not seriously ill in their beds to two centres, where they were transferred to stretchers.
Two fathers arrived and carried their newly born babies from the wards to the ambulance. Bernard Cooke of Cornwall Street, Victoria , proud father of Patrick Joseph, who weighed 9lb, 14oz at his birth a week ago, said:. It's my first baby, you know, but I think it's wiser that they should go away. The bed patients - 70 in number - were evacuated from Charing Cross Hospital in an hour. I'll see you soon,' called one of the younger women. You will be back next week,' was the nurse's rejoinder.
Many babies were among the first batch of patients removed from Guy's hospital. Great progress has been made with the first part of the Government's evacuation arrangements in England, says a statement issued by the Minister of Health. The statement goes on: 'The railways, road transport organisations, local authorities and teachers and the voluntary workers in the reception areas are all playing their part splendidly. It has already been possible to extend the arrangements to a few other areas.
As a further precautionary measure the Minister of Health has sent instructions to hospitals in the casualty organisation to send home all patients who are fit to be sent home.
Similar arrangements have been made in Scotland. Search term:. Read more. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled.
While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets CSS if you are able to do so. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. Operation Pied Piper The evacuation of Britain's cities at the start of World War Two was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's history.
The stereotypical images were already forming in people's minds. Finding homes was often traumatic for the children. As a rule, billeting officials would line the newly arrived children up against a wall or on a stage in the village hall, and invite potential hosts to take their pick. Corporations and private relief organizations in the United States arranged for thousands of children to stay in the country.
In New York City, a radio interview of six evacuee children living there was broadcast back to England on Sept. Given the large numbers and different social classes involved, individual experiences ran the gamut from excellent to terrible. On Dec. British women and children in Singapore began to be evacuated shortly after Japan launched its attack on the colony. After a harrowing experience on their ship, one group eventually reached Australia in early January Children evacuees from Bristol carry bags, suitcases and gas masks as they walk off the platform upon their arrival at the Brent Station, London, U.
They later continued on to Kingsbridge, U. Bristol later suffered severely from Luftwaffe air attacks. The return of evacuees to London was approved on June , but some began returning to England as early as The evacuation was officially ended in March YouTube features a number of videos about the evacuation.
The first official evacuations began on September 1 , two days before the declaration of war. A second evacuation effort was started after the Germans had taken over most of France. From June 13 to June 18, , around , children were evacuated in many cases re-evacuated.
When the Blitz began on 7 September , children who had returned home or had not been evacuated were evacuated. By the end of , city centres, especially London, became safer. From June , the Germans attacked again by firing V1 rockets on Britain, followed later by also V2 rockets. This new way of attacking Britain carried on until the end of the war in Europe in May Message from a visitor to this page: " I found your notes on evacuation very helpful as I am writing my memoirs of my own wartime schooling and evacuation.
Many people don't realise that most London children like myself spent much of the war sheltering in bomb shelters, and were only evacuated the year before the war ended because of the new threat from the V2 rockets.
Well done for your thorough research!
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