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children were migrated to Australia and Zimbabwe to be adopted or brought up in children’s homes. Approximately 2,000 are still alive.
Rex, who lives with wife Annie in St Columb Rex Wade now 59 and living in Cornwall Major, Cornwall, said: “I have never had a direct apology from the Government. There was one made to the country, but I want to sit down with Prime Minister Theresa May face to face so she can hear what we all went through.
“I am not saying she is personally to blame, but she is at the top of the government that betrayed us. The Government should face up to the people whose lives they damaged.”
A confidential report written by British officials in 1956 told how officials went to Australia to look at places where children were being sent. They visited 26 homes, two-thirds of those approved by the British Government. One place was described as isolated, with “deplorable conditions”, and the boys “appeared unhappy”. Another was primitive, with managers “rigid and narrow in outlook”. Rex still wants to know why he
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REX ON CHOICE OF PIG FARM, BOARDING SCHOOL OR AUSTRALIA
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