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Kinmel Park Mutiny - March 1919

Kinmel Park was a large camp in Wales established to house troops from the Dominions who were awaiting their demobilisation and return home.

By March of 1919 there were over 20,000 troops stationed here, in a camp designed to cater for far fewer than this. A combination of desperation to return home to civilian life, inadequate housing of the troops and the continued shortages of even the bare essentials led troops stationed here to grow increasingly restless. In March their desperation turned to anger and there was an uprising by the men. The mutiny resulted in the deaths of a number of the Canadian troops.