- Contributed by听
- WMCSVActionDesk
- People in story:听
- Jack Harding
- Location of story:听
- Birmingham, Staffordshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4890846
- Contributed on:听
- 09 August 2005
When I was 18 I became a Bevan Boy. There was a lottery and I got picked and worked in Staffordshire. There was a big mistake allowing people to volunteer to work in a coal mine. I desperately wanted to get out. In the end the bosses said that if we didn't straighten up they would put us in the Army, which was what we wanted anyway.
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