Britain in the 20th Century: A Pictorial Record

Leaving Home
London schoolboys, complete with gas masks in cardboard boxes and luggage, all set for evacuation to the country, September 1939. At the beginning of the war children from the major cities were sent to rural corners of the country, in the hope they'd be safe from German bombs, leaving their distraught mothers for the first time.

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