In June 1919, more than 4,000 Canadian soldiers were encamped on the nearby Epsom Downs, waiting with growing impatience for the ships that would carry them across the Atlantic and back home, Richardson says. Aroused by the news of their comrades’ arrest, more than 400 soldiers stormed out of the Canadian camp and — ignoring the pleas of their officers — invaded Epsom. No one was convicted of killing GreenSeveral soldiers, including Cape Breton Islander Allan MacMaster, were arrested and stood trial. Did that spirit of unrest and its accompanying hostility for authority infect the Canadians on Epsom Downs? Five Canadian soldiers met violent deaths in that disturbance and dozens of other Canadians were injured.

Source: National Post July 02, 2019 19:27 UTC