New Resource Children's Overseas Reception Board 2021-01-05

Children evacuated overseas 1940

  1. Roy Martin
    During 1940 some children were evacuated to the United States, Canada and Australia. The idea being that they were to be taken to a place of safety, no one seems to have appreciated the terrible hazards they would face on the journey, until finally, many paid with their lives when the City of Benares was torpedoed