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Britain in the Second World War: The Evacuation of British Children.
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GCSE History Coursework Britain in the Second World War: The Evacuation of British Children. Question 1. The British Government decided to evacuate children from all the major cities and move them to the country where they were less likely to get bombed. Major amounts of people got moved. 827,000 school children. 524,000 mothers and young children. 13,000 pregnant women. 103,000 teachers. 7000 blind and disabled people. (Letts History guide page 74.) If you take away this many people from a country then you take away this many people your taking away a lot of the population. Children are around a third of the country and if you remove them from the cities then you take away the stress on the emergency forces like the Police and ambulances. Also it takes stress off Air Raid Wardens who instead of having to go and get children who had been injured or lost could concentrate on doing...
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