Free Download Penny Starns, "Oceans Apart: Stories of Overseas Evacuees in World War Two" English | ISBN: 0752490117 | 2014 | 160 pages | EPUB | 7 MB From May 1940 the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. The scheme was extremely popular, and over 200,000 applications were made within just four months. In addition, thousands of children were privately evacuated overseas. The 'sea-vacs', as they