So that they could be individually accounted for when they reached their destinations, and so that their parents could be informed where they were. Some children were very young, and might not reliably have known their home address.
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As identification. There had to be some means of identifying them and where they were to go.
The evacuees were evacuated on the 3rd of September 1939
Evacuees in WW2 were allowed teddies. Many pictures of evacuees boarding the trains have children with teddies.
They got a letter sent to them saying that they had to take in evacuees because of the world war 2.
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some had to work