Appendix 11: Government Evacuation Scheme
Estimated number of persons evacuated in organised parties or assisted with travel vouchers and billeting allowances between September 1941 and the end of the war in Gt. Britain.1
(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 class (homeless persons, etc.) | Total |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) |
September 1941 to March 1942 (England and Scotland) | 5,300 | 300 | – | – | – | – | 5,600 |
September 1941 to end of war (Scotland)2 |
– | – | – | – | – | – | 6,500 |
September 1941 to end of war (London) | – | – | 24,500 | – | – | – | 24,500 |
January 1941 to end of war (provincial cities) | – | – | 4,000 | – | – | – | 4,000 |
July 1941 to end of 1945 (England) | – | – | – | 140,000 | – | – | 140,000 |
September 1939 to end of war (Scotland) | – | – | – | 4,700 | – | – | 4,700 |
July to September 1944 (organised parties from Metropolitan evacuation areas) | 101,000 | 183,000 | – | – | – | – | 284,000 |
July to September 1944 (organised parties from South-east England evacuation area) | 12,000 | 11,600 | – | – | – | – | 23,600 |
July to September 1944 (assisted private evacuation from Metropolitan areas) | – | 471,000 | – | 4,600 | – | 51,400 | 527,000 |
July to September 1944 (assisted private evacuation from South-east England)3 |
– | – | – | – | – | – | 25,000 |
118,300 | 665,900 | 28,500 | 149,300 |
–4 |
51,4005 |
1,044,900 |