September Operation Pied Piper was set up in order to spare children from the experience of being bombed or worse. One of the most, if not the most, emotionally wrenching decisions made by the British government during World War II was its decision to relocate its children out of urban centers to locations where the risk of bombing attacks was low or non-existent.
Almost 3 million people were evacuated during the first four days of the operation, making it the biggest and most concentrated population movement in British history. During the summer of , the London County Council began requisitioning buses and trains. Young British children are evacuated as part of Operation Pied Piper. Ultimately 3. Imperial War Museum photo.
When Germany invaded Poland on Sept. The evacuation began that afternoon. One mother in London, after watching her own two children march off, saw two tots leave a line and rush up to a policemen standing in the middle of the intersection, holding traffic until the children had passed. In London and other major cities, adults saw long files of children led by teachers or other officials walk toward bus or railroad stations for their journey to different parts of the country.
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Police wearing armlets and LCC school officials saw that an avenue to their platform was kept entirely free for the children. Little tots smiled gleefully and boys whistled and exchanged jokes.
One boy, carrying a kitbag over his shoulder in true military style, kept humming to himself as he marched along. Your children are going to have a happy holiday and don't worry. One little boy at Ealing Broadway Station, where 50, children entrained, had a bucket and spade with him. To cheer him up his mother had told him that he was going to the seaside. Actually, she did not know his destination.
Mr E Kingston of Vansittart Road, New Cross, who saw two of his children leave on the train said, 'It is the only sensible thing to do. I am not worrying. Hospital evacuation too, went off smoothly. Along the blue-windowed corridors of Saint Thomas's Hospital, past the carriage which Florence Nightingale used in the Crimea, teams of medical students wheeled patients who still require medical treatment but are not seriously ill in their beds to two centres, where they were transferred to stretchers.
Two fathers arrived and carried their newly born babies from the wards to the ambulance. Bernard Cooke of Cornwall Street, Victoria , proud father of Patrick Joseph, who weighed 9lb, 14oz at his birth a week ago, said:.
It's my first baby, you know, but I think it's wiser that they should go away. The bed patients - 70 in number - were evacuated from Charing Cross Hospital in an hour. I'll see you soon,' called one of the younger women. You will be back next week,' was the nurse's rejoinder. Many babies were among the first batch of patients removed from Guy's hospital.
Great progress has been made with the first part of the Government's evacuation arrangements in England, says a statement issued by the Minister of Health. The statement goes on: 'The railways, road transport organisations, local authorities and teachers and the voluntary workers in the reception areas are all playing their part splendidly.
It has already been possible to extend the arrangements to a few other areas. As a further precautionary measure the Minister of Health has sent instructions to hospitals in the casualty organisation to send home all patients who are fit to be sent home. Similar arrangements have been made in Scotland. Search term:. Read more. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience.
Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets CSS if you are able to do so. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. Operation Pied Piper The evacuation of Britain's cities at the start of World War Two was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's history. The stereotypical images were already forming in people's minds.
I'll Take that One As a result of the mismatches, selection was made according to rudimentary principles. Daily Mirror's coverage Saturday, 2 September No hitch on great adventure Evacuation of schoolchildren from London went without a hitch.
Daily Mirror; part two Saturday, 2 September And they did smile A teacher cheerily told a father: 'We'll be back in a week. The evacuation went off with remarkable smoothness.
Bernard Cooke of Cornwall Street, Victoria , proud father of Patrick Joseph, who weighed 9lb, 14oz at his birth a week ago, said: 'I am sorry to lose my wife and boy. Daily Mirror: part three Saturday, 2 September Evacuation plans going smoothly Great progress has been made with the first part of the Government's evacuation arrangements in England, says a statement issued by the Minister of Health.
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