Bream School Records April-May 1945 (General)

by downunder , Wednesday, October 02, 2013, 06:21 (4075 days ago)

Hi all

This may be a bit of an out-there question, but we have a copy of the Bream school register for evacuees April-May 1945 - in pursuit of our relatives' wartime lives in the FOD. From April 23rd-May 11th the children's attendance records are marked with an O with a cross in the middle - unusual because every time else an absence is just marked with an O. Underneath the teacher has drawn a red line and written what looks like " Meetings disregarded Ad. Memo 51 pp 15 (1)." VE was the 8th May. School seems to have resumed normally again on the 14th May.

We were wondering whether there were special holidays for the children in the FOD at the time? Maybe because the dads serving in the forces were starting to come home?

Many thanks