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The child evacuees of World War Two
When World War Two started thousands of children were taken away from their families in UK cities and sent to live in the countryside. Kitty Baxter was nine when she left London.
The 1 September 1939 was Kitty Baxter鈥檚 ninth birthday, it was also the day her life and millions of other people鈥檚 changed with the beginning of World War Two.
Kitty was among the hundreds of thousands of children taken out of UK cities and into the countryside, away from the risk of German bombs. She鈥檚 been speaking to Laura Jones.
(Photo: Child evacuees leaving a London train station. Credit: Getty Images)
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