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In response to growing tension and technological advances in war, the British government set up the Evacuation Sub-Committee, part of the Imperial Defense Committee in 1931.
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Introduction In response to growing tension and technological advances in war, the British government set up the Evacuation Sub-Committee, part of the Imperial Defense Committee in 1931. (Jackson,8) The threat of war, and also the fear of bombing and gas attacks on Britain's major cities led the Government to plan the evacuation of four groups of people, comprised of 11-13 million citizens; (A) children from five to eighteen, (B) children under five, (C) expectant mothers and (D) handicapped citizens. (Jackson,10) The government divided the United Kingdom into evacuable, neutral, and receptor areas, and on the weekend of the 30th September 1939 after the outbreak of war on the 3rd of September after the German invasion of Poland, evacuation began. This was to be the first of many relocations from the urban to rural areas, and children were evacuated either individually, or with their parents, or with their schools. Many children ended...
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