Children’s Overseas Reception Board (CORB)

When the Luftwaffe began bombing Britain in 1940 the government decided to set up a Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) which arranged for children to be sent to Australia, Canada and the United States. In the first few months over 210,000 children were registered with the scheme.

After the City of Bernares was sunk by a German torpedo on September 17, 1940, killing 73 children, the overseas evacuation program was brought to a halt. By this time the Children's Overseas Reception Board had sent 2,664 children overseas. Most of these went to Canada.

Wealthy parents continued to send their children to safe countries. It is estimated that during the first two years of the war around 14,000 children were privately sent away. [Reference: Spartacus Educationl]

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