Lot 3760

Description

Identification Ticket, Kinmel Park, Rhyl, Wales, 1-3-19, No.3180155, Name Spr Silva F, stamped in red ink "M.D.6". Very fine and rare.

The Canadian Army had a staging camp of about 15,000 troops at Kinmel Park Training Camp and from 4th - 6th March 1919 it was the site of the Kinmel Park Mutiny by Canadian troops, stuck in the mud of North Wales awaiting troop ships to return them home. On half ration, not paid for one month, no coal for the stoves in the cold huts and with 42 men in huts meant for 30, necessitated men to take turns sleeping on the floor with only one blanket each. When they heard ships had left carrying U.S. troops, hundreds revolted resulting in five dead, twenty three wounded and twenty five convicted of mutiny. The holder of the card offered here was present at the camp when the mutiny took place.