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Date Posted: 23:30:31 09/25/05 Sun
Author: david dix
Subject: Re: Coal Miner in theTerritorial Army ?
In reply to: Angie 's message, "Coal Miner in theTerritorial Army ?" on 19:01:23 09/25/05 Sun

I think that I may be able to help on this one.
Clipstone is a smallish village about 5 miles from Mansfield. It is on the edge of Sherwood Forest. The male population there worked in the large local Colliery . There was at that time nothing else in the vicinity.
I expect that for reasons unknown to me but available from the Nottingham Archivist, men were sent there to work in the pit and accommodated in a recently vacated army barracks.
Hope that this helps
David Dix

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