The Soldiers Intervene

Andrew Rothstein

Chapter 3 in The Soldiers’ Strikes of 1919, 1980, pp 37-85 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract On Saturday morning, 4 January, there had been what The Times on 6 January described as ‘a beautiful ceremony’ at the Wellington Barracks in London, when three battalions of the Grenadier Guards, three battalions of the Coldstreams, two of the Scots Guards, and one each of the Irish and Welch Guards, saw off their respective detachments, under colours flying and with massed bands, in the presence of Queen Alexandra, Prince Olav of Norway and several thousands of spectators, on their way to Charing Cross Station. There the colour parties were to entrain on their way to Cologne. But at the last moment, after they had marched through the streets, their departure was countermanded — ‘owing to the fact that it had been necessary to close Folkestone as the port of embarcation, in consequence of trouble among the troops returning to France from leave in England,’ said The Times on its main news page.

Keywords: Town Hall; Daily Mail; Commanding Officer; Daily Telegraph; Military Authority (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05066-6_3

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