APPENDIX 10

Government Evacuation Scheme

Estimated number of persons evacuated on organised parties or assisted with travel vouchers and billeting allowances between September 1939 and September 1941 in Great Britain1

(Chapter XVIII)

Period Unaccompanied children Mothers and children Children under five evacuated to nurseries Expectant mothers evacuated under the special scheme Teachers and helpers Other classes (homeless persons, etc.) Total
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
September 1939 797,000 524,000 7,400 12,700 103,000 ,7000 1,451,000
September 1939 to April 1940 36,000 575 36,575
May to 1st August 1940 213,000 Included in column 7 9,0002 56,000 278,000
Children's Overseas Reception Board evacuation (summer 1940)3 2,664 2,664
1st August 1940 to February 1941 120,000 565,000 262,000 947,000
February to September 1941 120,400 173,0004 5 293,400
September 1939 to September 1941 4,000 4,000
May 1940 to June 1941 20,7006 20,700
1,289,064 1,262,000 11,400 33,975 112,000 325,000 3,033,4397

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Footnotes

1 Including mothers, children and other classes evacuated to hostels, group homes, residential nurseries, camp schools and other institutions, but excluding most of those who were helped with travel vouchers and who found their own accommodation for which billeting allowances were  not paid.

2 This figure refers to staff accompanying only a proportion of the children. For other schemes in 1940 and for the years 1941–5 no details are available of the evacuation of teaches and helpers.

3 The Government also permitted the evacuation (by private arrangements) of some 15,000 children and adults to the U.S.A. and Canada.

4 Including some homeless persons and other classes.

5 A number of 'other class' are included in the figure of 173,000 under col. 3 and in the figure of 262,000 under col. 7, but for the bulk of the movement under this heading during February–September 1941 no figure are available.

6 Excluding Scotland, the figure for which are included in Appendix 11.

7 This statement includes a small number of persons assisted to move to Eire and N. Ireland but it excludes

  1. about 10,500 Gibraltarians, some 29,000 Channel Islanders, refugees from over forty different countries totalling just over 30,000 and
  2. transferred doctors, nurses, health visitors, social workers, medical students, industrial workers, nursery staffs, civil servants, sick patients, civil defence workers, police and others. Many of these people were billeted in reception areas.

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