The British government tried to evacuate all the children during the early years of world war two in order to protect the most valuable thing to the country and that was the future generation. With the future generation Britain would have less soldiers to fight wars, less people to work in the factories to create bombs and new weapons and without the future generation there would be no-one to run the country in later years.

However this was the main reason and their was loads of important reasons as well. Another reason is because of fear people might have. Firstly the fear of a gas attack, and with many people remembering the results of gas attacks in world war one in the trenches. So to help stop this far the government issued everyone with a gas mask to try and control this fear.

However this wasn't the only...