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Virginia Edmond-Kent 13/07/03 Evacuation Coursework The summer of 1939 saw children all over Britain being packed off to various countryside sites, they were transported by trains and London busses and were fully equipped with gas masks, name tags and personal belongings. They were being evacuated, the biggest movement of population in peacetime. There were many reasons for this dramatic movement and the need to tear children away from their families. The most important reason for the government to decide to evacuate children from places that were likely to be in danger was the change in warfare. Technology had changed, the invention and the progress of the aeroplane meant that countries at war could bomb each other from the air. The British had seen the effect of air attacks, on newsreels on the Spanish civil war. In 1936 the Spanish civil war broke out, a rebellion of Spanish officers led by General Franco against the...

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