Conscripted, had to buy your own picks and shovels, got injured you received no pension, no Naffi concessions, no travel warrant to go home on leave, no medal and no recognition. Treated with suspicion, regularly questioned by the police. Failure to comply resulted in jail, when it was over you went home, unlike miltary serving men whose jobs were often by law kept available, it wasn't the case for these men as they were civilians. Records were destroyed in the 50s. And now the same country points it's finger at others saying, look how they treat their civilians they have no freedom etc.
I wish they would be more voices of the past with opinions or memories from down the shaft. ❤❤❤
Conscripted, had to buy your own picks and shovels, got injured you received no pension, no Naffi concessions, no travel warrant to go home on leave, no medal and no recognition.
Treated with suspicion, regularly questioned by the police.
Failure to comply resulted in jail, when it was over you went home, unlike miltary serving men whose jobs were often by law kept available, it wasn't the case for these men as they were civilians.
Records were destroyed in the 50s.
And now the same country points it's finger at others saying, look how they treat their civilians they have no freedom etc.
FIRST!!!
Jimmy Savile was a Bevin Boy