Children at the back of the Boys Dormitoty in Cherbourg c1943

During the Second World War, some of the evacuees from Thursday Island are housed in the dormitories causing severe overcrowding. As a result children are accommodated in the backyards of the dormitories and meals are cooked on open fires.

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