Rucksacks are suggested as the best form of luggage carrier, as these leave the arms free, an important advantage. The rucksack may be too expensive for children. A haversack would be cheaper and would be a good substitute.

School Children in Wartime. I was nine years old at the outbreak of war in the year 1941. My first memory was when they were distributing the gas masks.

2020年2月4日 · Young evacuees at a London station. Every child wore a label written with their name, school and evacuation authority. They carried a small bag containing several Ministry of Health-specified belongings and their gas mask in its box. Children were given a stamped postcard to inform their parents where they were billeted. © IWM LN6194.

School-age children were evacuated, pregnant women, mothers with young children, and the disabled and also their carers and helpers, and teachers as well. The evacuation between 1939 and 1945 amounts to the biggest mass migration of British history.”

New Experiences for children: World War 2 brought about new experiences for children the need to adapt quickly to their surroundings. Teaching children how to wear gas masks and implementing the ‘air raid drill’ practice into the school day were common.

The Second World War was a time of major upheaval for children in Britain. Over a million were evacuated from towns and cities and had to adjust to separation from family and friends. Here are 11 ways children were affected by the Second World War.

2014年12月17日 · Approximately three million British children were evacuated from their city homes and sent to the countryside during World War II. The first of these mass evacuations took place in early September 1939 and saw children carrying boxes containing their gas masks. A paper label attached to each child identified who they were and their journey details.

The expected evacuation day came and each pupil whose parents agreed for them to go to safety arrived at school with a small case or bag containing a change of clothes and their address. They...

Although many schools were evacuated during the war, others chose to stay open and 'make the best of it', converting cellars and basements, as shown in this photograph, into makeshift classrooms. Children were crammed into large classes and stationery and teachers, books, paper and equipment were all in short supply.

In 1941 I was sent away to an endowed boarding school near Guildford. My most abiding wartime memory was going to bed in my dormitory with what we called our 'trench bundles' close at hand. These...