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By Joe Gingell
During this time of the year, 83 years ago, the people of Gibraltar were to experience the darkest chapter in the history of Gibraltar.
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Author Tells Story of Gibraltar Evacuees in Roehampton
Around 1,000 were housed in centres in the area during the Blitz Gibraltar children at Whiteland’s with Joe Gingell sitting on floor, first from the right
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A man who was evacuated from Gibraltar during the Second World War has documented the experience of those who were brought here in 1940 including around a thousand who, like him, were housed in Roehampton.
Joe Gingell tells how, at the outbreak of war, with uncertainty over the stance of Franco’s fascist regime in Spain, a large number of people from Gibraltar were evacuated to French Morocco which was the nearest allied territory. However, after the defeat of France and the destruction of the French Fleet at Oran by the Royal Navy, the Vichy French authorities order the expulsion of the Gibraltar evacuees who were given 24 hours to leave.