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Liverpool children, evacuated from the district to Cardiganshire, Aberystwyth and Wrexham areas, pictured on their arrival home at Lime Street station. Many have been gone for 5 years
The Right Spirit - This was a really happy party of Percy Main mothers and young children snapped while waiting for the evacuation train at the station today. 7th September 1939
A carriage filled with evacuees waits for the guard to blow his whistle. 2nd September 1939
Newcastle school children arriving at the Archbold Hall, Wooler, Northumberland, for their first meal, after having been evacuated from the city. 2nd September 1939
London evacuees heading to the Wirral. July 1944
Flashback to the dark days of 1939, as Liverpool children board a bus to take them to safety. 1st September 1939
Children being evacuated from London July 1944. Children boarding train get help from policemen to carry their heavy baggage
World War Two - Second World War - Bombs from German dive bombers explode during the evacuation of the BEF from the beaches at Dunkirk. Circa: June 1940
World War Two - Second World War - Thames river craft arrive back after helping the evacuation of the BEF from the beaches at Dunkirk. 9th: June 1940
World War Two - Second World War - The evacuation of the BEF from the beaches at Dunkirk. Circa: June 1940
World War Two - Second World War - A naval officer on the beach at Dunkirk prior to evacuation. Circa: June 1940
Evacuation rehearsal at St. Michaels Church School, Buckingham Palace RoadEvacuation rehearsal at St.Michaels Church School, Buckingham Palace Road. 4th September 1939
Group of children at a London Station ready to leave for the safety of the countryside. 6th July 1944. watscan - - 17/08/2010
Dutch children being evacuated to Coventry due to lack of food, ready to go after being labelled and given flags in Eindhoven. 9th February 1945. watscan - - 17/08/2010
Group of children at Southampton ready to leave for the safety of the countryside. 6th July 1944. watscan - - 17/08/2010
Headmaster Mr Rixon gives last minute instructions to children at St Michaels Church School, Buckingham Palace Road for their evacuation the next day September 1939
Wallsend scholars of Richardson Dees school were quite happy at the prospect of living in the county as they set out for Ponteland district during the evacuation of the borough schools today
South Shields mothers and young children in cheerful mood, marching to the station for evacuation to the country. 9th September 1939
Safe and Happy - The happy faces of these Cowgate, Newcastle, children give reassurances that they are safe and enjoying their new surroundings after being evacuated
World War Two - Evacuation of children A Marshall leads the way to the buses, during todays evacuation of school children at Wallsend. 6th September 1939
Balkans War November 1912 Turkish refugees retreat to Constantinople
Suez Crisis 1956 The families of British workers in Egypt arriving at London Airport following the hostilities in Egypt
Suez Crisis 1956 British civillians evacuated from Egypt arrive at Southampton by flying boat
World War Two Children evacuated from the cities disembark from a train in the West of Scotland September 1939
Evacuees bound for Canada arrives at their assembly point for registration before going on to join their ship. The practice of evacuating children overseas stopped after a liner carrying several
World War Two - Children wait to be evacuated from a Scottish town to avoid air raids September 1939
WW2 Children Evacuees Children carry and push along their belongings in improvised wheelbarrows as they are evacuted to the coutryside for their safety during WW2
Injured Belgian soldiers seen here getting into a motor car prior to being transported beck to hospital in Antwerp. Circa September 1914
Polish civilians formerly used as slave labour by the Nazis in Belgium get aboard a truck at the St Clair displacement centre
Schoolchildren from East Ham walking in a long queue with their belongings are evacuted to the country while London is being attacked with air raids
Norwegian evacuees arrive from Spitzbergen September 1941 during WW2
Evacuees leaving Euston for the country July 1944 during WW2
Norwegian evacuees arrive in United Kingdom from Spitzbergen September 1941 during WW2
Evacuees leave Euston for the country July 1944 during WW2
Child Evacees leave Euston for the country during WW2 Circa September 1939
Children evacuated to the USA return home to England. They went away as school children but now come back home as grown-up children. Here they are seen making up their faces before leaving the ship
Father Merckx seen here with one of the youngest of the 300 Belgian refugees aboard a cross channel ferry bringing them to Great Britain 27th September 1914
The rush of civilians to the quay to catch boats evacuating the city. They came on foot carrying what possesions as they were able to bring with them
The rush of civilians to the quay at Antwerp to catch one of the boats evacuating the city. They came on foot, taxicab, carts and in traps
Antwerp is besieged, October 1914. Crowds of refugees struggling to make their way on to and across the pontoon bridge to escape the advancing Germans is being cleared to make room for ambulances to
Evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk A flotilla of little boats, which helped in the evacuation of British French
With a doctor and nurse at his side, a boy is being taken by this R. A. FWith a doctor and nurse at his side, a boy is being taken by this R.A.F. helicopter (1-10-57) to a hospital where he was rushed for special treatment: The boy, Derek Garner
Villagers evacuate for US Army. OPS Farmers discussing their fate after meeting in the church. 14th November 1943
Church meeting before villagers evacuate to allow American army manouvres. War Office representative points out the area on a large map on the altar. 14th November 1943
B. E. F return from Dunkirk on The Skylark transport ship. 3rd June 1940B.E.F return from Dunkirk on The Skylark transport ship. 3rd June 1940
Troopship, The New Holland, arriving in Liverpool with repatriated prisoners of war from Malaya. 11th October 1945
British Expeditionary Forces return from Dunkirk. June 1940. W318F
Scene during the battle at Dunkirk in Northern France, after British troops had become trapped and were encircled by the German army. June 1940 P009399