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Ww2 Dublin kids evacuation labels

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  • 28-10-2017 5:22pm
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    robtri
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    Hoping some one can shed some light on this and give me some lnformation as to why issued and how they where issued etc...
    Any help is appreciated

    My mother when cleaning out her mans house found an evacuation label for herself, none for her sisters.
    My Mam would have been 4 moths Old at the time the label issued..

    Curious to know more about it ..


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    Artdeco30
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    Sounds very interesting but the link to the attachment was just blank when I clicked on it


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    Jellybaby1
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    I can get it ok. Click again and give it time, its a bit slow appearing.


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    whisky_galore
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    Interesting, had thought the only child evacuations on this island occurred in Belfast.


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    Artdeco30
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    Funny that there is no Irish on it.

    Would the National Museum know more about it, I wonder?


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    robtri
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    Artdeco30 wrote: »
    Funny that there is no Irish on it.

    Would the National Museum know more about it, I wonder?

    Strangely no, I have submitted an email to the department of defence, who issued it but nothing back from them yet


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    whisky_galore
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    Artdeco30 wrote: »
    Funny that there is no Irish on it.

    Would the National Museum know more about it, I wonder?

    Perhaps wartime restrictions overrode the requirement of the extra card and ink to make the label bilingual?

    The printers I assume were 'EPW', printed on July 1941, and a print run of 160,000.


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