The source is not showing us that some children didn’t like the fact they were leaving their parents and were terrified. We know this because it shows us in Source C that the children where so scared they were too afraid to even talk but source C doesn’t tell us why the children where that scared. For some it was the first time they were leaving their parents never mind the city and they didn’t have a clue where they were going and who their hosts would be.
In Source B we can see adults accompanied the children but it’s not very clear as to who the adults are. Because the source is a photograph, it doesn’t show us at what age the children where accompanied and what age you were aloud to go by yourself. Under 15s were to be accompanied but over 15s could travel alone for example. The source also doesn’t show that the adults accompanying them were not their mothers but teachers unless the child was very young in which case the mother was allowed to go with the child. Source C however, tells us that mothers were allowed to follow along behind their children to the train station and that teachers took them.
Source B is also useful as it shows how limited their luggage was they carry small bags gasmasks and are wearing identification tags. Neither of the Sources show us the scale of how many children (about 3.5 million) where evacuated however and that some were privately evacuated which is when the children’s family made their own arrangements with relatives that lived in the country. Both Sources give a date at the bottom but they don’t tell us when the government’s evacuation scheme actually began, or how long the process had been going on for before the Sources.
In source B it doesn’t seem that unorganised but we can tell it is by the information given in Source C because it mentions the fact they didn’t know where they were going.
Source C is also useful, because it is the recollection of a teacher who would have good knowledge about what actually happened when the evacuation took place, rather than if a child was telling us.
Both of the sources are very limited and do not tell us a great deal of information but I myself think that Source C is more useful and covers more facts seeing as Source B is just a photograph which could have been faked.
