Evacuation

On the 1st September 1939, even before Britain went to war with Germany, the first Evacuation began. About one and a half million women and childen were evacuated, by the government, from places that were likely to be bombed by Hitler. A lot of the children came from poor families and they quite often didn't understand what was going on. On many occassions their parents didn't even know where they were going. Children were taken to the 'safer' countryside where they had to stay with foster families.



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Merthyr Tydfil was one of the towns that children were evacuated to. It was not one of the places bombed during the war.Here is an an evacuees account of their time in Merthyr Tydfil - []

Find out a little bit more about the life of other children that were evacuated to other parts of the country. []