London Evacuees in Devon and Cornwall, England, 1941

ID: 428 ~ Source: "[London Evacuees in Devon and Cornwall, England, 1941.]" Image. From Imperial War Museums: Ministry of Information Second World War Official Collection. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205197008 (accessed July 11, 2018). ~ Creator: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer ~ Date: 1941
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A group of boys evacuated from London and the Thames Estuary lean on a gate in Totnes in South Devon during the second wave of evacuations.

This file appears in: Evacuate the Children

By Alan Davies
"Once the bombings started seriously—and that was in June of 1940—that’s when the government said, 'you should evacuate your children.' And most families complied. There were a, well a few wealthier families went away to—as a family…