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The evacuation called Operation Pied Piper was the British government decision to relocate its children out of urban centres to locations where the risk of bombing attacks was low or non-existent
Evacuees during World War Two. 3rd September 1939
Children prepare to be evacuated from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, 11th September 1939
Returning evacuee children wave goodbye to Derby as their train moves out, bound for London and their homes. 15th June 1945
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk
Bound for the country - South Shields Children who are to live in the country under the boroughs latest evacuation scheme pictured in happy mood while waiting to leave by train to-day. 7th July 1941
Three weeks old Raymond Ratford, the youngest evacuee, photographed with the mother. The second convoy of London evacuees
World War Two, evacuation of children. Written in the faces of these children, setting off to safety is a tale of fears and doubts hardly formed in their bewildered minds
Child refugees washing in Salisbury Cathedral during the Second World War. 25th November 1940
Children waiting to be evacuated from Southampton 1940, to avoid the WW2 German air raids
Children from London evacuated to South Wales. October 1940
Evacuated Birmingham schoolchildren seen here cooling off with an ice cream whilst taking in the sights of Stratford of Avon. 4th September 1939
Evacuation of Louvain, Belgium. World War Two. On 28 May 1940, the King Leopold III surrendered to the Germans alongside his soldiers
Evacuating a sick man on a wheeled stretcher through Louvain, Belgium. Belgium surrendered to the Germans at the end of May 1940. Picture taken 19th May 1940
Liverpool - July 1944. Evacuation children at a Liverpool Train Station. It is not clear if they have arrived from London, or are going to London. Picture taken 24th July 1944
Evacuation to Wales. May 1940. Many thousands of people, along with vital institutions and priceless historical objects, were evacuated to Wales for safety in the Second World War
Evacuees arrive in back in London. It was good to to see a London bobby again. 4th September 1940
Evacuees from Bitterne Park School, Southampton. June 1940
Children evacuated from Lathom Road, East London during World War II. Circa 1939
A sewing lesson in the school playground at Llanfairfechan, Conwy County Borough, Wales, where there are many Liverpool children. Picture taken 21st May 1942
The first British children evacuees arrive in Australia. Pictures here at a zoo in Melbourne. The Childrens Overseas Reception Board (CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation
Two young Blackawton lads helping with the evacuation of the village. Circa November 1943
Local farmer with his steam tractor engine and threshing machine seen here leaving Slapton at the beginning of the evacuation. Circa November 1943
Children from various schools in Liverpool arriving at Colomendy School camp in Wales, where they are being met by friends and playmates previously evacuated to the camp. 5th March 1941
The last twenty three residents of Inishark Island (sometimes called Shark Island), off the coast of County Galway, Ireland, are pictured evacuating the Island
Children of All Saints School, Gateshead, arriving at Gateshead Station for evacuation to-day. 1st September 1939
Evacuation of Island of Soay. Some of the 27 people of Soay Island banded together for the removal of their effects. They loaded their goods
World War Two - Second World War - An old paddle steamer, one of the many ships of all shapes and sizes that helped in the evacuation of the BEF from the beaches at Dunkirk. Circa: June 1940
World War Two - Evacuation of children This happy study of evacuees from Heaton, Newcastle, shows a school class setting out for a nature study in the woods " somewhere in Northumberland"
The crew of one of the small ships that helped with the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). from the beaches of Dunkirk, pose for the cameras at Folkestone. 6th June 1940
Women and children preparing to evacuate their town before nightfall during Second World War. 7th September 1941
Dutch children who are to travel to Coventry. February 1945
Two Dutch children preparing to travel to England with 500 other Dutch children who are to stay near Coventry. February 1945
Men, women and children from Hull head into the countryside to escape the Blitz. 4th September 1941
First pictures of the evacuated British Airborne Forces from Arhem, Holland during the Second world War. Sergeant C Bennet of the 1st Airlanding Brigade (home town Darlington)
The 28th November is Independence Day in Albania. On this day 32 years ago, the Albanian people were freed from Turkish rule On this occasion
A little group of Birmingham children who as a result of the evacuation, have exchanged the citys crowded streets for the peace and calm of an un-named Warwickshire village. 4th September 1939
Evacuated Birmingham schoolchildren seen here taking in the sights of Stratford of Avon. 4th September 1939
Child evacuees during the Second Word War, Liverpool, Merseyside. Circa 1940
Michael David aged 5 months, a poor foundling who has been bombed from his home, now at the Hampstead Rest Home run by Miss Anna Freud. January 1941
Some of the children who were evacuated from Bristol and sent to the safety of the Somerset, Devon and Cornwall countryside between February 1941 and March 1942
Sacrifice is this schools lesson, for here the children are offering their toys for sale to help the Soldiers Comfort Fund. 22nd June 1940
The hand maidens. They also serve who only sit and wait. So the youngest inhabitant in the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, her fingers too small to hold knitting needles
The flying Magic Carpet of the Arabian Nights has nothing on the Anderson shelter you see battered and bent, but still taking it, in the picture
In this quaint old mansion where they have a real old four-poster bed, four evacuees play make-believe bedtime games with their dolls. Circa November 1941
Evacuated children with their teacher Mrs Hunt in St. Ives, rural England during the Second World War. 15th May 1945
Evacuated children Irene Barker and Victor Woolridge take part in a singing competition in the classroom of their new school in rural Wales during the Second World War. 13th September 1944
In accordance with a request from the Norwegian High Command, British naval forces have evacuated the entire civilian population from an island behind the German lines off the coast of northern
