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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
I am talking about the UK. thousands of children were sent to some of the commonwealth countries, mostly by the Aid agencies such as Barnardo'sand others. If you can get a copy of the book "EMPTY CRADLES" you will read about it in there, plus Orphans of the Empire.
I had groups on the net for many of these people who were looking for their families.
Many children were sent to canada, Australia and rhodesia among other places.
Many canadians are still searching for their family roots.
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I'd never actually heard of this until now, I guess it shows that you really do learn something new each day, lol. Do you know when they stopped doing this? It sounds rather traumatic, and must have been a horrible experience for the children. If it happened in your living memory then I imagine it must have happened until recently in history? It's hard to believe something like that went on not so long ago. I'll be sure to look up the book you mentioned, I'm rather interested actually too, so thanks for mentioning this.