DISPLACED PERSONS AND REFUGEES IN GERMANY, 1945-1948 - Some of the children with the crews of the aircraft, 29 November 1945. Pilots of both planes, Flight Lieutenant P. A. D. Hellem "Relvenden" of Hook Heath in Woking (holding child) and Flying Officer P. Collyer of 10 st. Mary's Street in Bridgewater, are amongst the children. Two Dakota aircraft of the Royal Air Force Transport Command were used to carry 23 children from Celle in Germany to Geneva. These children, 11 boys and 12 girls, were amongst 300 whom the Swiss Government agreed to care for over the winter of 1945-46. All the children
DISPLACED PERSONS AND REFUGEES IN GERMANY, 1945-1948 - Some of the children with the crews of the aircraft, 29 November 1945. Pilots of both planes, Flight Lieutenant P. A. D. Hellem "Relvenden" of Hook Heath in Woking (holding child) and Flying Officer P. Collyer of 10 st. Mary's Street in Bridgewater, are amongst the children. Two Dakota aircraft of the Royal Air Force Transport Command were used to carry 23 children from Celle in Germany to Geneva. These children, 11 boys and 12 girls, were amongst 300 whom the Swiss Government agreed to care for over the winter of 1945-46. All the children came from displaced persons camps in the British Zone of Occupation and their parents could not be traced. Most of the children were Polish but the nationality of four of them was unknown. Two of the children were Belsen inmates Royal Air Force
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