On 29 September 1939, 66 evacuee children were enrolled in Kirn Primary School.

"What do you think it was like for the evacuee children?"

Many people became very fond of their evacuee children and were very kind to them, but others treated children with harshness or neglect.

During the war years, Macpherson instituted parents speaking to their evacuee children in America live on the radio.

After May 1940 each evacuee child was medically examined and assigned a record card, on which were entered (in coded form) details of any ailments.

Revealingly, the Oxford survey found that, of 217 unaccompanied evacuee children, fully 87% received at least one letter per week and/or a quarterly visit from their parents.

The torpedo struck the ship far aft on the port side, almost directly opposite the place where the majority of the evacuee children had their quarters.

C S Lewis, who wrote the 'Narnia' stories, had evacuee children staying at his home in Oxford.

The Houston public school system, with about 208,000 students, also wants money to pay for more teachers, additional facilities and tutoring help for its roughly 30,000 evacuee children.

That same day Aberystwyth railway station likewise received 400 evacuee children.