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Belgian refugees on the harbour at Ostend waiting for a boat to take them to England.<\/p>\n
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At the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, Germany invaded Belgium on its way to France, sending hundreds of thousands of Belgian refugees fleeing for their lives.<\/p>\n
A quarter of a million Belgians managed to make it across the English Channel to Britain \u2014 the largest influx of refugees in the country\u2019s history<\/p>\n
There, they were greeted warmly by the government and the public and received housing in specially-built communities and the homes of generous Britons. Refugees were put to work aiding the war effort, some of them in all-Belgian factories, such as London\u2019s Belgian Munition Works, which employed 2000 displaced individuals. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n More about Europe<\/a>, History<\/a>, Us World<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, and Social Good<\/a> 1914 Belgian refugees on the harbour at Ostend waiting for a boat to take them to England. Image: Print Collector\/Getty Images At the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, Germany invaded Belgium on its way to … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1248,874,749,892,732],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-europe","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-social-good","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"