Bevin boys

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 342 words | Copyright

Bevin boys were those chosen by ballot—one in ten of all men aged between 18 and 25—to serve in the British mining industry instead of in the armed forces. They were named after the British wartime minister of labour (above) who introduced the system in December 1943 because the industry was short of manpower. See also UK, 2.

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