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Identification Of Civilian Population By The Hampshire Record Office

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The document is an from an archive taken from the Hampshire Record Office which includes a government poster published in Britain during the time when WW2 had just began and evacuation process had started to take place. Whilst carrying out research it is important to be able to understand more about the context of this time. To some extent this poster is able to help us with our understanding surrounding some of the details about the evacuation process as well as being able to analyse some of the information that the government provided the citizens with during this time. Whilst trying to understand and develop my research on evacuees and how records were kept and handled, this document specifically is able to provide some insight into the different areas across Great Britain and possibly develop upon this in order to compare and contrast research that is compiled over a period of time.

The title of this document is ‘Important announcement- Dispersal of civilian population’, this clearly shows us that the purpose of the document was to inform civilians and to provide them with important information that was necessary for the majority of the public to read and understand attentively. The first section of the poster is titled, ‘Children under 15’. In this section of the poster, it addresses the issue of children under 15 travelling and how they must be accompanied by their mothers or another responsible adult at all times. This suggests that the

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