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  • INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: LIFE AT PAUNTLEY COURT, A SCHOOL AND HOME FOR FRENCH AND BELGIAN REFUGEES, PAUNTLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1943 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: LIFE AT PAUNTLEY COURT, A SCHOOL AND HOME FOR FRENCH AND BELGIAN REFUGEES, PAUNTLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1943

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    Ten-year-old Lily (left) from Le Havre, France, and her friend, nine-year-old Lilianne from Brussels, Belgium, help to hang out the washing before they go to school. Both are staying at Pauntley Court in Gloucestershire.

  • BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 1940 BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 1940

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    A group of smiling Belgian refugees sit at a long table, holding out their plates for a piece of the bread which is being sliced by an adult on the left of the photograph. As well as the loaf of bread and the children's cups, several large bottles of...

  • BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 1940 BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 1940

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    A group of Belgian refugees sit at a long table and hold their plates up towards the camera, as they await their afternoon tea of milk, bread and jam. The loaf of bread, jar of jam and bottles of milk can be clearly seen on the table.

  • BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 1940 BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 1940

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    A close up view of seven Belgian refugee children sitting at a long table, their mugs in front of them on the table, as they patiently await their afternoon tea.

  • BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 1940 BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 1940

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    A group of five young Belgian refugees laugh and smile for the camera, somewhere in London, 1940.

  • Private Papers of R M Vermeesch Private Papers of R M Vermeesch

    (private papers) Made by: Vermeesch, R M

    Well-written word processed memoir (75pp, written 1996) of his experiences as a Belgian refugee in London, May 1940, and subsequent evacuation with his mother and brother to St Austell, Cornwall in early 1941 before being repatriated to Belgium in July...