Who Stayed On The Working Line During The War?

[ukelele lady]

What were the other occupations during the second world war where you were needed

to stay at home in your job to help the war ?

We know of the miners but were the dam workers also kept at home to service the dams?

[Edmund]

Well you did ask.....

The full document is available from the National Archives (LAB25/97) - not available online, but there was an article in the Times in 1939 giving the provisional list. Prizes for the daftest. I like "Gong Maker (clock)"

[saw119]

Anecdotally my Grandfather was a drop stamper and was refused his application to join the Navy. He then tried to resign his job as a drop stamper to enlist but he was drawn to be a Bevin Boy instead, a job he stayed in until Nunnery Colliery was closed in the Mid '50's.

[jmdee]

Anecdotally my Grandfather was a drop stamper and was refused his application to join the Navy. He then tried to resign his job as a drop stamper to enlist but he was drawn to be a Bevin Boy instead, a job he stayed in until Nunnery Colliery was closed in the Mid '50's.

My dad worked at English Steel as a sheet metal worker.

[ukelele lady]

With the long list printed above of the reserved occupations it makes you wonder where they found all the fighting

men who went to war.