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A closer look at the life of a child growing up in World War Two
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A closer look at the life of a child growing up in Britain during World War 2
Created by: Ally D, Kirstyn T, Eric P, James S
A closer look at the life of a child growing up in Britain during World War 2….
Created by: Ally D, Kirstyn T, Eric P, James S
Children were affected a lot by World War Two.
Approximately two million children were
evacuated from their homes at the start of
World War Two; children had to endure
rationing, gas mask lessons, living with
strangers etc. Children accounted for one in
ten of the deaths during the Blitz of London
from 1940 to 1941.
It was designed to save the
population of urban or military areas
in the United Kingdom from bombing
and military targets such as docks.
Civilians, mostly children, were
transported to areas thought to be
less at risk. . Further waves of
official evacuation and re-evacuation
happened from the South and East
coast in June 1940, when a seaborne
invasion was expected, and from
affected cities after the Blitz
started in September 1940. There were
also official evacuations from the UK
to different parts of the British
Empire, many non-official evacuations
inside and from the UK. Other big
movements of civilians included
British citizens coming from the
Channel Islands, and displaced people
arriving from continental Europe.
In some kitchens people cooked on a 'stove' heated by
a coal or wood fire. The stove heated the room and
cooked meals. Most kitchens had a gas cooker, though
some had electric cookers.
People went shopping to buy fresh food most days.
To keep flies away from meat, they kept meat in a
small cupboard called a 'meat safe'. They kept bread
in a bread bin and biscuits in tins. Families ate some
tinned foods, such as tinned meat, peas and baked
beans, but hardly any frozen foods.
You could only buy fresh fruit grown in Britain, such
as apples or pears. Fruits that had to come in ships,
like bananas, vanished from the shops. Many ships
were being sunk by enemy submarines, and precious
ship-space was needed for war materials (such as oil
or guns) not bananas.
Almost every home had a radio or 'wireless. In Britain,
all the programmes came from the BBC. People listened
to the radio news, and read newspapers, to find out
what was happening in the war.
To keep in touch, people sent telegrams (letters).
Evacuees wrote postcards and letters home.
School was badly affected
during World War 2-they
learnt how to use their gas
masks and getting out of
the house in air raids
instead of learning
according to their proper
curriculum. Children
actually enjoyed it
because there were so
many children at school so
they went to school at
certain times. This meant
that they were not
properly educated there-
fore at the end of the war
they had to catch up!
Food rationing began in 1940. This meant
each person could buy only a fixed amount of
certain foods each week.
Much of Britain's food came from other
countries in ships. Enemy submarines sank so
many ships that there was a shortage of some
foods. Rationing made sure everyone got a
fair share. You had to hand over coupons from
your ration book, as well as money, when you
went shopping. When you had used up your
ration of one food (say, cheese or meat), you
could not buy any more that week.
Vegetarians could swap meat coupons for
This short article is all about the World
War 2 and how Britain survived, what
happened with the evacuees and their
education. It is full of brief information
and examples of the families that went
through this.