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The Soldiers Intervene

In: The Soldiers’ Strikes of 1919

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  • Andrew Rothstein

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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.

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  • Andrew Rothstein, 1980. "The Soldiers Intervene," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Soldiers’ Strikes of 1919, chapter 3, pages 37-85, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05066-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05066-6_3
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