The Great Evacuation of 1939: Children Flee Britain | War Archives
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 Published On Apr 1, 2015

Children being evacuated from British cities in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. They carry only what they can as they walk through the streets and are loaded onto trains for safer places.

(Film ID 997.01)

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