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BERKSHIRE RECORD OFFICE

Guide to World War 2 Records: Evacuation Scheme

Berkshire Record Office
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Reading
RG1 6AF

Tel 0118 901 5132
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Most of these records concern the local management of the evacuation scheme. Few contain the names of evacuees. Please also see the Emergency Committee minutes (or equivalent) of the place in which you are interested for further information.

Berkshire: Evacuees Welfare Sub-Committee July 1941-April 1942 and Evacuation Sub-Committee May-December 1942 (C/CL/C3/5E/1).

Abingdon Rural District: Finance and General Services Committee minutes 1939-1945 (RD/A/CB1/8-11).

Binfield: Notes, photographs and press cuttings on the war, including evacuees, air raids and Home Guard c.1939-1945 (D/EX1511/1/5).

Bracknell: Special Committee on 鈥淭he Forest鈥�, High Street, Bracknell, as sick bay accommodation [for evacuees] 1939 (RD/E/CB16/1).

Bradfield Rural District: Evacuation Committee reports in the Rural District Council minutes 1939-1945 (RD/B/CA1/34-40).

Caversham: Papers regarding the use of Wesley Hall by children evacuated from a school in London 1939-1941 (D/MS30/1F/1-3).

Cookham Rural District: Billeting Committee minutes 1941-1944
(RD/C/CB13/2).
Finance and General Services minutes 1939-1945 (RD/C/CB2/4-6).

Donnington: Sale particulars for property including a cottage occupied by evacuees 1945 (D/EX898/2/456).

Easthampstead Rural District: Rural District Council minutes 1939-1945 (RD/E/CA1/15-16).
Billeting Costs Refunds Committee minutes 1941 (RD/E/CB16/1).

Hungerford: Correspondence regarding the use of the Methodist Church Sunday School for the evacuated Macklin Street Roman Catholic School 1939-1946 (D/MS3/1F/8).

Maidenhead: Special Committee Regarding Evacuation minutes, later the Billeting and Emergency Feeding Committee 1939-1946
(M/AC2/3/2).
Craufurd Home (for evacuees) Sub-Committee minutes 1945
(M/AC2/3/2).

Newbury: Recollections of an evacuee in Newbury 1940 (1990)
(T/Z35).

Newbury Rural District: Rural District Council minutes 1939-1944
(RD/N/CA1/10).

Reading: London evacuees at Battle Senior School recorded in the log book 1939-1944 (2001/SCH4/2).
Circulars from Chief Billeting Officer of Reading relating to evacuation (addressed to Mr Gleave, Headmaster of Battle School, Reading) 1940 (D/MS62/5/1-4).

Sandhurst: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940 (CPC102/1/3).

Stratfield Mortimer: Civil Parish Council minutes 1939-1940 (CPC120/1/2).

Wallingford: Lists of evacuees in Wallingford Cottage Homes 1940-1943 (D/XGW1/6).
Lists of hospital cases and war workers transferred to Wallingford from Reading and London 1940-1948 (D/XGW1/7/1-2).

Wallingford Rural District: Some information on the evacuation scheme and the Evacuation Sub-Committee in the Rural District Council minutes 1939-1945 (RD/W/CA1/19-20).

Waltham St Lawrence: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940-1941 (CPC141/1/2).

Wargrave: Proposal for an evacuation camp at Cockpole Green and other information on the evacuation scheme in the Civil Parish Council minutes 1939-1941 (CPC145/1/4).

White Waltham: Evacuees鈥� use of allotments described in the memoirs of Charles Hazell of Littlewick Green 1946 (D/EX1505/1, pp 211-212).

Windsor: Evacuation Committee minutes 1942-1945
(WI/AC2/11/12-15).
Details of nurses evacuated from London hospitals to Windsor 1939-1944
(D/H6/15/1).

Windsor Rural District: Evacuation Committee minutes 1941-1943
(RD/WI/CA1/23-24).

Wokingham: Records and memories of Oakfield Hostel (for child evacuees) 1940-c.1985 (D/EX1362/1-6).

Wokingham Rural District: Evacuation Scheme Sub-Committee minutes 1940-1941 (RD/WO/CB26/3).

Woodley: Information on the use of the village hall by evacuees in the Civil Parish Council minutes 1939 (CPC113B/1/3).

Out-County: Register of evacuees to St. Neots, Huntingdonshire
1939-1943 (D/MS83/8/10).

This guide is correct as of January 2006. Please contact the Berkshire Record Office to request a copy of the most up-to-date version.

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