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The Étaples mutiny was a series of mutinies in September 1917 by British Army and British Imperial soldiers at a training camp in the coastal port of Étaples in Northern France during World War I.
Sep 9, 2017 · Etaples in north east France was the core of this metropolis. The troops were subjected to a fierce regime by officers of the blood and bayonet school. War poet Wilfred Owen described it as a ...
Sep 9, 2006 · A short history of one of the early big mutinies of British troops in Europe as World War I came to an end. Submitted by on September 9, 2006. Etaples, about 15 miles south of Boulogne, was a notorious British Army base camp for those on their way to the front.
- The Lesser of Two Evils
- Grayson, Bottomley & A Mutiny That Never Was
- What Became of Victor Grayson: The Irish Theory
There’s been a tendency among some writers and historians to frame Grayson’s jingoistic pro-War stance inside a treacherous and mercenary shift to populism and Conservatism; this is despite the fact that several prominent revolutionary leaders in Russia also backed the war including Alexander Kerensky (a member of the ‘Trudovik’ faction within the ...
Personally I’m not committing myself to any one theory. Some writers claim that Victor Grayson was working for British Intelligence and others that he was working for the Soviets or the Irish Secret Service. He may well have been working for all three of them but as long as police and security records on Grayson remain closed we are unlikely to kno...
What happened to Victor Grayson? Among the handful of plausible theories that have been put forward over the years, there could be a strong case for arguing that Grayson never made it out of Liverpool during that last week of September 1920, despite the best efforts of former Intelligence man, Donald McCormick to shuttle him back to London, and the...
The definition of mutiny in the British Armed Services as set down in Mutiny Act of 1689 (and still valid as part of the 1913 Army Act), was astonishingly broad: 'Organised act of disobedience or defiance by two or more members of the armed services'.
Étaples, a village on the northeastern coast of France, hosted a large British Army complex during the war. The base depot included several military hospitals and a large reception and training center designed for new troops bound for duty in France.
Jul 19, 2017 · Etaples Mutiny. Soldiers, officers and military policemen give their perspective on how events unfolded during the mutiny in the British Army at Etaples in September 1917. Show more.
