Neville Chamberlain's Evacuation
The Second World War is considered as one of the most profound battles and the deadliest conflict in human history, leading to the deaths of some 50 million people . During the Second World War, London’s metro population was estimated to be around 4.4 million and it bears the brunt of the war with series of bombings by the German between September 7th 1940 to May 1941. The attacks were collectively known as the Blitz, which reportedly claimed the lives of 20,000 civilians in London and destroyed more than a million houses. I believe London was prepared for the onset of the Second World War and in this essay I will state my reasons and contemplations.
Firstly, the mass evacuation was considered as one of the successes of Neville Chamberlain’s …show more content…
The onset of the war between September 1 -3, 1949 was the first wave of mass World War II evacuations in Britain . Nicknamed the Operation Pied Piper, it involves a massive undertaking of evacuating 1.5 million official evacuees over the space of three days. The government ordered the evacuation plans on August 31 and within a few weeks, 3 million British, mostly children had been evacuated from the cities. It was considered the most extensive movement of people in British history. In London alone, there were 1,589 assembly points for children . On the morning of September 1, children congregated in school playgrounds and each child had a luggage tag attached to their coat. Children were told to bring along gas mask, underwear, pyjamas, plimsolls, toothbrush, comb, soap, face flannel and warm coat. There was no financial assistance from the government for the items, therefore many poorer families were unable to afford it. More than half a million children boarded buses, tubes, taxis and trams to railways stations in the evacuation efforts. Teachers and members of the Women’s Voluntary Service and the Girl Guides rendered assistance, but the level …show more content…
The children 's war: evacuation 1939-1945 (London: Collins, 1989)
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Firstly, the mass evacuation was considered as one of the successes of Neville Chamberlain’s …show more content…
The onset of the war between September 1 -3, 1949 was the first wave of mass World War II evacuations in Britain . Nicknamed the Operation Pied Piper, it involves a massive undertaking of evacuating 1.5 million official evacuees over the space of three days. The government ordered the evacuation plans on August 31 and within a few weeks, 3 million British, mostly children had been evacuated from the cities. It was considered the most extensive movement of people in British history. In London alone, there were 1,589 assembly points for children . On the morning of September 1, children congregated in school playgrounds and each child had a luggage tag attached to their coat. Children were told to bring along gas mask, underwear, pyjamas, plimsolls, toothbrush, comb, soap, face flannel and warm coat. There was no financial assistance from the government for the items, therefore many poorer families were unable to afford it. More than half a million children boarded buses, tubes, taxis and trams to railways stations in the evacuation efforts. Teachers and members of the Women’s Voluntary Service and the Girl Guides rendered assistance, but the level …show more content…
The children 's war: evacuation 1939-1945 (London: Collins, 1989)
Jackson, Carlton. Who Will Take Our Children?: The British Evacuation Program of World War II (North Carolina: McFarland, 2008).
MacFarlane, Eric. , Education 16-19: In Transition (London: Routledge, 1993)
Marten, James. Children and War: A Historical Anthology (NY: NY University Press, 2002)
Nicholas, Sian. The Echo of War: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC, 1939-1945 (Manchester: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996)
Pryor, Francis. The Making of the British Landscape: How we have transformed the land from prehistory to today (London: Penguin, 2010)
Rankin, Nicholas. A Genius for Deception:How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars (NY: Oxford, 2008)
Ross, Stewart. Evacuation (London: White Thomsan, 2002)
Ross, Stewart. Rationing (London: Evan, 2002)
Stalcup, Ann. Three Who Survived: Child Survivors of World War II (Bloomington: iUniverse, 2011)
Stansky, Peter. The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940 (Lancester: Carnegie, 2007)
Taylor, Phillip. British Propaganda in the Twentieth Century: Selling Democracy (Edinburgh: Carnegie,