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Belgian Refugees in First World War Britain

Posted By: roxul
Date: 10 Nov 2022 20:14:00
Belgian Refugees in First World War Britain

Jacqueline Jenkinson, "Belgian Refugees in First World War Britain"
English | ISBN: 0367891271 | 2019 | 134 pages | EPUB | 1164 KB

Around 250,000 Belgian refugees who fled the German invasion spent the First World War in Britain – the largest refugee presence Britain has ever witnessed. Welcomed in a wave of humanitarian sympathy for ‘Poor Little Belgium’, within a few months Belgian exiles were pushed off the front pages of newspapers by the news of direct British involvement in the war. Following rapid repatriation at British government expense in late 1918 and 1919 Belgian refugees were soon lost from public memory with few memorials or markers of their mass presence.
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