Description
Object description
Photocopy of a ts letter (8pp) written in June 1919 to the Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, by Captain G Black, a barrister and officer in the Canadian Machine Gun Corps who had been requested by the Agent General for British Columbia to defend the British Columbian soldiers tried by General Court Martial at Liverpool for their part in the Kinmel Park riots in March 1919, questioning the propriety and legitimacy of the proceedings and requesting him to have the 30 men still in prison in Great Britain released, adding comments on the circumstances of the riot and the conditions of the camp, together with a photocopy of a second letter (1p) to Borden from Black, September 1919, reiterating his anxieties that the injustices of the trials have still not been undone and a photocopy (4pp) of a transcription of extracts from the diary of a Canadian soldier, Private C E Scarrow, written in April 1919 whilst at Kinmel Park following the riots awaiting his return to Canada describing the disaffection and low morale in the camp resulting from the continual delays in their repatriation.
Content description
Photocopy of a ts letter (8pp) written in June 1919 to the Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, by Captain G Black, a barrister and officer in the Canadian Machine Gun Corps who had been requested by the Agent General for British Columbia to defend the British Columbian soldiers tried by General Court Martial at Liverpool for their part in the Kinmel Park riots in March 1919, questioning the propriety and legitimacy of the proceedings and requesting him to have the 30 men still in prison in Great Britain released, adding comments on the circumstances of the riot and the conditions of the camp, together with a photocopy of a second letter (1p) to Borden from Black, September 1919, reiterating his anxieties that the injustices of the trials have still not been undone and a photocopy (4pp) of a transcription of extracts from the diary of a Canadian soldier, Private C E Scarrow, written in April 1919 whilst at Kinmel Park following the riots awaiting his return to Canada describing the disaffection and low morale in the camp resulting from the continual delays in their repatriation.
History note
Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1992-01-20