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Subject: Re: [CmnFHS] WWI
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:52:50 +0100


Gwenda

I know that my father signed up for the RAF at the beginning of world war 2,
but he was 'sent back' somehow, as his 'profession' prior to that had been
as a fireman on the railways . the ones that would stoke the fires on steam
locomotives, as opposed to firemen who put fires out. This was one of the
reserved occupations.

Gerry



On 02/06/2005 13:50:05, Gwenda Lanagan () wrote:
> Hi Pauline and all,
> Does anyone know what the situation was with reserved occupations in WWI?
> I've had a look on the internet and I think that for the first couple of
> years the men in the army were mostly volunteers or regular soldiers.
About
> 1916 conscription was introduced for single men 18 - 25 but by the end of
> the war this seemed to include any men 18 - 50.
> One of my mother's
> uncles was killed in the war but there is no mention of
> any of my father's many uncles being involved - or indeed his father who
> would have been 38 when the war ended.
> Was it because they were coal miners or farmers?
>
> What were the reserved occupations in WWII?
> Gwenda
>
>
>
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