WARTIME SCHOOLS - DONATED BY THE CANADIANS

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Interviewee name: JOHN STOKES
Date of event: 1 Jan 1945
It's not well known that the Canadians donated entire schools for use by London children whose schools had been bombed out. John's grandfather arranged for two of them to be imported to West Ham, and this is what it was like.
SCHOOLDAYS EDUCATION SCHOOL ww2 CANADA EVACUEES

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