(during the Second World War), a young man of age for National Service selected by lot to work as a miner.
“贝文男孩”（指二战期间达到服兵役年龄但通过抽签被选定去做矿工的男青年）
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Bevin Boys are often known as the "Forgotten Conscripts".
Miners' sons were forced down the pits, and from December 1943 Bevin boys were employed.
He was immortalised in the ‘Bevin boys’, an alternative to National Service in which men from different backgrounds, including public schools, were conscripted to go down the mines.
With the ending of the order for prosecution of Bevin boys for non-attendance it became impractical to retain the compulsory labour force.
In another you can see the Bevin boys, the miners who ensured Britain did not run out of coal during the war.