Meanings
plural call-boys
- alternativeAlternative spelling of callboy.
Driver Drewe was born in February 1881, and entered the service of the L.S.W.R. as a call-boy at Exmouth Junction Depot in April 1895.
1944 November and December, “Top Link Drivers”, in Railway Magazine, page 352
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