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   cecilia to rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
   Re: 1944 travel restrictions in UK to fa   
   15 Apr 22 23:01:10   
   
   From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:51:32 +0100, Graeme Wall   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 14/04/2022 09:49, Graeme Wall wrote:   
   >> On 14/04/2022 09:18, cecilia wrote:   
   >>> ! gather from a comment in an anecdote that in 1944 there was a a ban,   
   >>> until about 10 weeks after D-Day, on general travel south in England   
   >>> because of troop movements to Normandy .   
   >>>   
   >>> Is it possible to confirm when it ended?   
   >>>   
   >>> Would next-of-kin of hospitalised seriously wounded soldiers have been   
   >>> Exempt from the restriction (i.e. able to travel to visit) or would   
   >>> they have had to wait?   
   >>   
   >> The ban came in long before D-Day for security reasons. I'm not aware   
   >> that it continued long after D-Day, though obviously troop movements and   
   >> military logistics would have had absolute priority on rail and road.   
   >>   
   >> Unfortunately google is not very helpful and the books I have all   
   >> concentrate on events the other side of the channel after D-Day.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Just to add, the pre-invasion restrictions were on people /leaving/ the   
   >south. Once inside the perimeter you couldn't leave.   
      
   Thsnk you.   
      
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