Neutral countries such as spain and norway (not sure it might be sweden or both) were often targets for refugees because there was no fighting going on there.
yes
Kids continued to attend school during World War 1. In countries that had compulsory education before the war, nearly all kids continued to go to school. In many countries education was compulsory only up to age 14 or in some cases, only 13.
The evacuees would be picked by the family. They would go down to the station and check the kids' ID, clothes and gender and then they would take the chosen child home.
Historically, even before World War II, most boys did not finish 3rd to 5th grade level. Historically, girls didn't go to school like boys; later in the 1800s, girls stayed in school longer than boys. It was rare for most students to ever graduate grammar school before World War II; most left school between age 8 to 10 years old.
gone
All the time
Where they were to go
carlisle
Shropshire was used for evacuees to go
They did not go to big industrial towns or ports ( places likely to be bombed for obvious reasons).
Many were sent to Ilfracome in Devon. I was one of them. Norm Matthews.
Yes my mother and her brother were evacuated to New Zealand when they were aged 9 and 11.
The evacuees were evacuated on the 3rd of September 1939
Neutral countries such as spain and norway (not sure it might be sweden or both) were often targets for refugees because there was no fighting going on there.
"I can't wait to go on this school trip...but why is every child from the child going,not just our school?"
yeah there did