EVACUATION OF BRITISH CHILDREN TO CANADA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
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Photographs taken by Malak Karsh of a party of children from Byron House School, Highgate, London who were evacuated to Canada. Photograph shows a boy doing school-work.
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