Evacuation Collection (page 2)

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

The Pound family of Islington, London, return home from being evacuated to Harborough, Leicestershire. The family race up the steps of the home with Mr Pound who stayed behind, in the background

Mrs Reynolds, a ticket collector, and the mother of two evacuated children herself, takes the Lovell family through the barrier to their train. 6th July 1944

Dunkirk evacuation, (1940) in World War II, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk (Dunkerque)

British civilians evacuated by R. A. F. aircraft from Burma. 14th April 1942
British civilians evacuated by R.A.F. aircraft from Burma. 14th April 1942

Following the Italian invasion on 28 October 1940, Greece repelled the initial Italian attack and a counter-attack in March 1941

Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, who were encircled by the Germans at Dunkirk, Northern France before their miraculous escape, pictured on arrival at Dover

One of hundreds of patients being evacuated from a Birmingham hospital in specially converted Corporation buses at the outbreak of the Second World War. 1st September 1939

The garb of the nun is the age-old symbol of sister of mercy. In a country home of beauty and quietness this nun cares for evacuated children from the bombed areas

Its a great thing to know that so many mothers and children are being evacuated from London?s danger spots to safer areas outside. The children themselves, how ever, are amazingly calm about it all

Many and varied are the jobs done the Womens Voluntary Services. Looking round the teeth and down the throats of evacuee children is one the jobs, you see in the picture. Circa October 1940

By the inglenook fire of an old English mansion, these happy evacuee children from a blitzed area are learning the magic of Alice in Wonderland. Circa November 1941

RAF evacuate wounded partisans from Yugoslavia during the Second World War. As well as dropping supplies on a large scale to Marshal Titos forces

A typhus team of No. 31 Mobile Field Hospital back their Fordson WOT1 Ambulance up to the freight doors of Douglas Dakota Mark III, KG523 H, of No

Coo they ve taken to country town life have these Bzz Bomb evacuee kids from Rainham, Essex. This cheery party was photographed walking through Wilmslow, Cheshire. July 1944

Mrs Davies welcomes Mrs Thompson and her children, to her home in Stonefield Road Huyton, Merseyside, where they are to lodge. Picture taken circa 1st May 1942 (not actual date on caption)

Mill Road Rest Centre in Liverpool, Merseyside. Picture shows mothers and their babies who have just arrived on an evacuation train from London. Picture undated

The withdrawal from Dunkirk in Northern France showing British Expeditionary Force troops wading in the water to meet the rescue boats during the Second World War. June 1940

Evacuation. The children happily play by the fireside with their new guardians in their new, hopefully safer, home away from London d East End, during World War Two

Destroyer waiting at a jetty at Barentsburg in the Svalbard Islands to take Russian miners and their families off to the SS Empress of Canada. Spitzbergen Raid 25th August 1941

Commander Walder, R. N. (retired) and his wife have taken five evacuated boys
Commander Walder, R.N. (retired) and his wife have taken five evacuated boys and a girl from the blitzed cities. He made one condition in taking them

Evacuees from a heavily blitzed town have found a peaceful haven on a famous Warwickshire farm. The Land Girls are giving them a lift home from the village school as they all return to the farm at

Children being evacuated, pictured leaving Harwich. June 1940

Rehearsal of evacuation at St Michaels Church School, Buckingham Palace Road. September 1939

The centre of Sheffield ablaze during the first major bombing raid to hit the city on the night of 12-13th December 1940

US soldiers evacuate French civilians. Circa 1944

Women and children internees from Surabaya boarding HMS Bulolo, bound for Singapore. Circa 1942

Peter and Lionel Holland, now lodging with Mrs Lang of Yelverton Road, Anfield, Liverpool. Their father is a London fireman

A happy little troupe of London children running to their special classroom in Oxford. Most of them have been away from the danger of London for four years

Sisters of Mercy looking after the homeless children of the East End of London. 16th October 1940

Evacuees during the Second World War. November 1940

A general scene in the main street in the village of Strete, Devon. Villagers are talking about the evacuation that will affect the whole area. November 1943

Evacuees having a picnic under the cedar trees in the gardens of a church in Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire. August 1944

Mothers and fathers at the Welcome Club with their children. The club was formerly Christ Church Weymouth. December 1939

A woman tucking two children into bed, Salisbury Cathedral. Young children and mothers seek refuge from the bombed areas during World War Two. 24th November 1940

Private Amerelli says goodbye to his son, aged five, he is off to fight and mother (behind) is off to work. St Pancras Station, London. 19th November 1942

Headmaster of St Michaels Church School, Buckingham Palace Road, giving children last minute instructions for tomorrows evacuation. 3rd September 1939

Evacuees at a farewell party, playing a game of "Blind Mans Bluff"
Evacuees at a farewell party, playing a game of " Blind Mans Bluff". 14th May 1945

Birmingham children, most of whom have fathers in the Services and mothers in munitions factories - helping to entertain Buzz Bomb evacuees who had the first quiet weekend they have had for weeks

Evacuee children repairing shoes. 7th May 1940

54 boys of the Guernsey State Intermediate School who were evacuated to Oldham in June 1940 today left London Road Station, Manchester of the first part of their journey home

Children evacuated from Rochester to a camp in Wrens Wood, Ashdown Forest, have found their own band, of various instruments. There, amid the pines they have school, and play time is in the open air

Nineteen children living with their mothers under one roof. Pictured, Jean and Joan, two of Mrs Hainings ten children giving a hand with the washing up, while some of the nineteen children

Watched over by their new step mother in Brighton, Sussex, - these children evacuated from Hayter Road in Brixton, London say grace before enjoying some good home cooking. Saying Grace

Evacuation to Wales. August 1940. Many thousands of people, along with vital institutions and priceless historical objects, were evacuated to Wales for safety in the Second World War

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