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29-05-2008, 03:31 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Officers' Mess, RAF Elwick, Cambridgeshire
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You're Top Poster: #13   | Publican Hey all, Just wondering if being a publican of a bar/tavern was an exempted job in the war? And, if it was, how many of them were female, if there were any? Cheers, Pathfinder.
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29-05-2008, 08:23 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Those exempted from military service, except for those medically unfit, and in some rare cases, Conscientious Objectors, were employed in Offcial Reserved Occupations. Though this list changed over the course of the war, the basic list was: Miners Dock Workers Farmers Scientists Merchant Seamen Railway Workers Utility Workers - Water, Gas, Electricity and those who worked in essential war industries - making weapons, ships, aircraft etc By 1941 (1942?) even women (except those with children under 14) were conscripted into one of the Services, or into a war industry. And the Bevan Boys wee those conscription directed them towards mining instead of one of the Forces. So, publicans were not exempted. They would have tended to be older men, and yes many women took these jobs too.
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29-05-2008, 09:20 AM
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You're Top Poster: #13 | Thanks again for helping me out Kyt 
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