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Lee Sutton 12th November 2002 "Evacuation was a great success" Do you agree? Overall, the evacuation of children from all the major urban areas of Britain, was a success as it saved potentially thousands of lives. Government planners estimated that there would be 600,000 deaths within the first few days of the war. Therefore the government felt they had to act fast, they evacuated; 827,000 children, 524,000 mothers with young children, 13,000 expectant mothers, 7,000 blind/handicapped and 103,000 teachers, all within the first weekend after the official outbreak of war. The government wanted to show that they were being proactive and not reactive. However, bombing did not start until months later, the period between the official outbreak of war and the first air raid was known as the phoney war. This was a huge mistake made by British intelligence. The evacuation itself did not go at all smoothly or to plan. The evacuees were sent...

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