Sentences with phrase «men conscripted»

Playwright Peter Shaffer and late comic Eric Morecambe were also among the young men conscripted to Britain's coalfields.

The prime minister has paid tribute to the «incredibly important» contribution of the young men conscripted into coal mining during the second world war.

Not exact matches

In one month, Geoff had overseen the arrival of 21 sick men from another camp, all conscripts from the mining villages of Rhondda.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was only a young teenager when he was REQUIRED by law (being a «law - abiding» citizen in America you would understand) to join Hitler's Youth Group and after turning 18 he was conscripted (as a patriotic American you can understand young men being drafted) into the German army, which, after a few months he deserted (that alone should make you respect him) and spent a few months as a German POW in an American POW camp.

«National Service» means that Singaporean men are conscripted for two years while women are exhorted to counter a falling birthrate.

Almost 50,000 men aged 18 to 25 - roughly one out of every ten conscripts - worked as miners during and after the war to address labour shortages.

His father was conscripted into the Wehrmacht during the second world war during a forced conscription process in which the Nazis executed 25 men who resisted.

Now that many men have been conscripted into the military, women are a majority at many campuses.

This population - based study examined the cohort of all 1,534,425 military conscripts in Sweden during 1969 - 1997 (covering a period when national service was compulsory in Sweden and including 97 - 98 % of all 18 - year - old men nationwide each year).

Callum Turner's performance as Bill is consistently engaging, as is that of David Thewlis in the role of Bradley, a to - the - letter army man railing against the insubordination he encounters from the conscripts.

While recalling two of Sanjay Mishra's finest films in recent times, Ankhon Dekhi and Masaan (the former for the theme of a man past his prime suddenly seeking to extend the conscripted parameters of his life, and the latter for its Varanasi setting), this film is another beast altogether.

The conscripted job becomes the man's alter ego, in which he morphs into a flaming skeleton and rides the nights away looking for spirits who have escaped the confines of Hell.

Armenian men were either conscripted as slave labor (which few survived), or killed outright.

Harry has been conscripted by the Prince Regent into a weeklong competition at a remote estate with four other men to discover which has the most enticing mistress.