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This first wave of the evacuation took place during September 1939 1,500,000 people were evacuated 827,000 of those people were Schoolchildren.
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This first wave of the evacuation took place during September 1939 1,500,000 people were evacuated 827,000 of those people were Schoolchildren. The government mainly only offered children the chance of evacuation if they lived in main industrial areas that they thought would be bombed. This was because in the recent wars in Spain and the Far East there had been terrible bombing on industrial towns and large cities. Therefore making the government nerves about the children's lives and safety. The evacuees would be moved to the countryside where booming was not expected. The evacuees would move there and live with local families. There was also neutral areas these areas were expected to suffer from light attacks, no one was evacuated or sent to these areas. One of the main reasons the government evacuated children was the fact they were the next generation, also the mother of the children whom had...
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