WW1 Evacuees?

[horseshoes]

Were there any evacuees in WW1. I have a postcard from 2 sisters in Llandudno written to their brother in the B.E.F. in France 1917. They state they have had a letter from their parents so it certainly sounds as if they MAY be evacuees. They may, of course, just be on holiday. Can anyone help? Thank you.

[Lil O'lady]

There was no British state programme of evacuation in world war one, but that it could be that people used their own initiative and moved away from areas threatened by zeppelin raids.

[horseshoes]

Thanks for that. That makes sense - possibly gone to stay with relatives etc etc.

[dot.haukes]

they may also have been in a seaside boarding school, quite common in the edwardian and later years when the flu epidemic was rife in the cities and large towns, children who's family could afford it were sent to boarding schools in isolated places to avoid the pandemic. In 1918 whole families were wiped out .

[horseshoes]

Another possiblity. Thanks so much for your answers.

[dundurn]

In 1914 my mother-in-law's family lived in Gravesend and her father, like a lot of their neighbours, worked in the naval dockyard at Chatham. They were very conscious of the danger from bombing and in 1915 his wife went to Cornwall where her family lived taking their first child with her. She was pregnant at the time and my mother-in-law was accordingly born in Cornwall. They returned to Kent before the end of the war after the Zeppelin raids had tailed off.

[horseshoes]

Thanks Dundurn, I'd really never thought about evacuation during WW1 at all.