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Maurice Emerson
Bevin Boy
from:Stanhope
My Dad, Maurice Emerson, went to join the Navy with his best friend Revvie Brown who lived next door to him in a small terraced house in Stanhope in the heart of Weardale, County Durham. Revvie was taken on by the Navy but for some reason related to his age Dad was sent into the mines. He was unhappy about this and hated his time in the mine. The only good thing was he met Mam, Sylvia Sanderson, while he was working the Horden mine, they married in 1954 and were married 58 years until Mam's death in 2012. Dad sadly died this year aged 87. I wish I knew more about his years in the pits but he wasn't happy to talk about it.
Editor's note: Men joining up were selected to be Bevin Boys if their enlistment number ended in the number 9, it was simply by chance that Maurice was selected, like so many others who would rather have served in uniform.

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