Don’t do it, Mother – Leave your children in the safer areas poster (INF 13/171)« Return to The Home Front
2. Read Source 2. This is a government poster about evacuation.
- Who is the ghostly figure whispering ‘Take them back!’?
- Where is he pointing?
- What does he want the mother to do and why?
- Why might this mother be tempted to ‘Take them back’?
- What is the message of this poster?
- Why were children evacuated during the Second World War?