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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:37 am Post subject: Bevan Boys? |
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seeing a couple of recent posts about mines led me to thinking.....
In WW2 a number of men were conscripted to serve in the mines instead of the armed forces (Bevan Boys) and presumably a number died as a result of accidents in the mines. I have never seen a specific memorial or mention of miners on any WW2 memorial (nor in England).
Has anyone else seen Bevan boys mentioned on a memorial? I have seen NAAFI staff, YMCA and even a Munitions Worker but no Bevan Boys. |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Me neither, it might be worth having a look at the Scottish Mining website to see if anything is mentioned there.
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Malcolm
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 184 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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The new Memorial at Cowie has a separate Memorial to all the miners in the same enclosure.
Aye
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