Talk:Reserved occupation

This article copies this BBC page too much...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a6652019.shtml?sectionId=0&articleId=6652019 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.80.220 (talk) 12:31, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Which professions?
Wouldn't it be better to have an actual list of reserved occupations, rather than list of notable people which doesn't even specify what their job was! In fact I'd consider this trivia.

This is also basically a UK specific article, presumably other nations had something similar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gymnophoria (talk • contribs) 23:56, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

It also doesn't mention that some professions were "reserved" in that their members had to serve in the RAF instead of the army - this happened to, for instance, James Herriot - at least according to his books. Totnesmartin (talk) 15:34, 6 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Removed the list, as on analysis it was random trivia (no clear inclusion criteria and a potentially vast pool of people who could warrant inclusion), and mostly wrong (Bevin Boys were conscripts, not in a reserved occupation that prevented conscription). Mauls (talk) 15:29, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Students
"as both agricultural students and farmers were exempt from conscription, as were students." Is that saying the same thing twice or is "agricultural students" redundant as being included in all students? 194.207.86.26 (talk) 13:13, 5 April 2019 (UTC)