Life as a Bevan Boy

Gordon Ernest Mitchell and his friend Ernie Bosdet received their notice to report for duty beginning on 24 April 1945 from the Ministry of Labour and National Service. They were to report to the Lady Windsor Colliery at Pontypridd. "We were now Bevan Boys". They were conscripted under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts 1939 to 1940 in which males could be conscripted to work in the mines, instead of the armed forces. Gordon says "Lady Windsor colliery was situated in a valley at Ynysybwl, several miles from Pontypridd and at the time employed about 1150 men". They were accomodated in Nissen... Mehr ...