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VE Day: the evacuee who became Bond

Refugee: The young Roger Moore was evacuated to a farm in Devon during WW2. He never forgot “skimming the cream off the top of the milk and the most wonderful blackcurrant and apple pies”.

Did displaced children suffer lifelong damage? Roger Moore was one of hundreds of thousands evacuated from British cities during World War Two — and some coped better than others.