Refugees Collection (page 6)

Filling in Food ration card WWII
Jenny de Graaf, a Belgian refugee arriving in London, fills out a form for a food ration card at the Fulham distributing centre during World War II

Refugee receiving station WWII
The Fulham Institute in London where refugees were received directly from the station before being sent to the distributing centre during World War II

Quakers aid refugees WWII
The Quakers organised that each child on board the refugee steamer received a glass of milk twice a day

Preparing for refugees WWII
Any items useful in furnishing houses are requisitioned for refugees and collected by vans from local residents in England during World War II

Rufugee mothers WWII
Refugee mothers can buy a cup of tea from the Voluntary Welfare Workers in England during World War II

Jewish broadcaster WWII
Mr. Levin, the Jewish news broadcaster, speaks daily over the American sender XMHA in German to his fellow refugees who most of them have relatives in Germany

Refugee hostel furnished WWII
Cubicles in a Salvation Hostel in London are hurriedly furnished to receive refugees during World War II

Refugee storage WWII
There are a few storage rooms in each camp where people keep their belongings during World War II. Thus the transfer from summer to winter equipment becomes quite an affair, performed in shifts

Refugees from Spitsbergen WWII
Men from Spitsbergen evacuated to England during World War II

Travelling refugees WWII
Refugees travelling by train during World War II

House requisition WWII
Empty houses in Chelsea are requisitioned by the Town Clerk for refugees and bear this notice on their doors during World War II

Refugees WWII
Refugees gather to hear speaker during World War II

London refugee billeting WWII
At the Fulham Borough Council, London, a Dutch refugee and his family learn where they will be billeted during World War II

Classroom WWII
Refugee boys sitting at attention in the art classroom. They would sit thus whenever the Commandant or a master enter the classroom

Refugees on ship WWII
Refugees travelling by ship during World War II

Kitchener refugee camp WWII
Many of the refugees in Kitchener refugee camp in England preferred to shave themselves and even seemed to enjoy the novelty of camp life in being able to shave outdoors

Refugee accommodation request WWII
London notice outside town hall advertising for accommodation to house Belgian refugees during World War II

Refugees boarding bus WWII
Refugees, including Jenny de Graaf, board the bus from the receiving centre to distributing centre in Fulham, London, during World War II

Refugees with gas mask boxes
Child refugees with gas mask boxes during World War II

Belgian refugees in London are fitted with gas masks at Fulham Borough Council during World War II

Flanders 1918
Old women refugees in a farm cart near Bethune with British soldiers in Flanders on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918

Refugees making Munitions Cases, Earls Court, London
First World War refugees making munitions cases at the camp set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Earls Court, West London

Wartime Beds at Earls Court, West London
A First World War refugee camp for Belgian refugees at Earls Court. Around one thousand beds in the Queens Palace were provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1914

Wartime Schoolroom for Refugee Children, Earls Court
A schoolroom for the children of refugees set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Earls Court, West London, during the First World War

Wartime Nursery for refugee children, Earls Court, London
A nursery for the children of refugees set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Earls Court during the First World War

Sikhs flee from West to East Punjab
A Sikh man with his children in one of the caravans leaving the West Punjab region for the comparative safety of the East Punjab

Partition. Muslim women and children pouring across the fro
Muslim women and children escaping the Sikh Jathas, pouring over the frontier border into Pakistan having heard about atrocities and violence following Partition in 1947

Mahatma Gandhi at Muslim refugee camp
The hindu spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi receives a warm reception from Muslim refugees gathered at a camp close to Delhi, prior to convoy travel to Pakistan

Partition. Refugees crossing the border between Pakistan
A lorryload of Sikh and Hindu refugees about to cross the Wagah Bridge between Pakistan and India to escape the mass killings and atrocities between Muslims

Muslim fanatic restrained at refugee camp
A Muslim fanatic is restrained by his co-religionists as Mahatma Gandhi arrives by car at a refugee camp close to Delhi

Muslim Refugees heading to Pakistan
Two trains packed with Muslim refugees en route from Delhi to Pakistan. A bulging, writhing target trainload of refugees was attacked by Sikhs at Amritsar on 22nd September

Refugees leave East Punjab to head to India
A heavily-laden bullock cart transporting an extended Sikh refugee family fleeing the communal rioting and additional violence in the East Punjab region associated with the Partition of India

Guardians of the Sikh Refugee caravan
Armed Sikh men on horseback act as the self-appointed guardians fo the column of refugees travelling from East Punjab to Pakistan and safety following the partition of india

Refugee Sikhs march toward the East Punjab
Part of a long column of refugee Sikhs marching across the East Punjab to escape the sectarian religious violence sparked by the partition of India

Sikh Family fleeing to East Punjab
Uprooted from their home, a Sikh family flee to the safety of the East Punjab carrying only meagre possessions

Partition. Sikh and Hindu refugees in Western Punjab
Sikh and Hindu refugees from the Western Punjab cook their meals on a railway platform at Lahore awaiting trains to take them across the border to India. They are protected by wire put up by police

Refugee Trains, India
Crowded trains of refugees arriving at Amritsar, border town on Pakistan and India, following the Partition in 1947

Polish refugees 1914
A family of Polish refugees with a cart containing their belongings

Russian Refugees in Turkey
During the First World War, Caucasian Russian refugees fled to Turkey. Here is a mixture of men, soldiers, women and children in Eastern Turkey

Disinfection Service
Disinfecting a room in Paris recently occupied by refugees

The Neutral Umbrella
A small umbrella of neutrality offers little shelter to Holland, Norway and the USA who find they are all affected either by cutting of their trade routes

Scenes from Behind the Front Line in Flanders
The pleasures of staying in a French billet after a turn in the trenches

Serbian Refugees; First World War, 1916
Photograph showing Serbian refugees travelling along a track in the Balkans, during World War One, 1916. The original caption for this image suggested that these people were returning to their

Refugees in Dubrovnik
The war with Turkey causes much distress : refugees flee to Ragusa (now Dubrovnik in Croatia) and beg from well-to- do people outside a hotel

Samara Refugees
War and revolution mean that many lose their homes and become refugees : a makeshift camp at Samara

Serb Fugitives
Serbian refugees from Pirot on their way to Palanka after defeat by the Bulgarians

Blown-up bridge in Warsaw
A bridge over the Vistula at Warsaw, blown up by the Russians in their retreat through Poland. In May 1915, the combined forces of Austria-Hungary

Scene on board the Refugee Ship North Britain, 1882
Engraving showing an informal scene as people wake up and get dressed; one woman is shown having her hair dressed and another is in her corset

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