During his sermon in the church, the vicar quotes from 'The Grenadier's Good-Bye' by Henry Newbolt - " When Lieutenant Murray fell, the only words he spoke were 'Forward, Grenadiers!' ...".
(Prologue) England - World War II. During the blitz on London, thousands of children had been evacuated by their families to the safety of remote villages. This film is about a group of evacuees. They were neither delinquent nor problem children - just boys who wanted desperately to be part of the war they were too young to fight.