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I thought readers might like to know that two of the French "children" who were rescued from Boulogne on the 22 May 1940 and spent five years at Smyllum Orphange returned to Lanark this year.

You can read about their visit & see some of their photographs at:  http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/Boulogne.html

They left Boulogne with the nuns and teachers who looked after them at the orphanage in Boulogne and spent five happy years far away from the war.

But they knew that some of the other children at Smyllum were not so fortunate ...

Read here about the 26 French orphan girls evacuated by HMS VENOMOUS from Boulogne on the 22 May 1940 who spent five years at Smyllum Orphanage with their own French sisters and teachers: http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/Boulogne.html

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Thank you so much for this.

I shall add the date to this page.

She must have been one of the older children when she left Boulogne aboard HMS VENOMOUS on the 22 May 1940.

I posted the photographs under a similar topic elsewhere on this site.

Confusing ... it wont let me post the same photos again here unless I change the file names. 

Read here about the French orphan girls evacuated from Boulogne on the 22 May 1940 who spent five years at Smyllum Orphanage: http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/Boulogne.html