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19/07/2017

Etaples Mutiny

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Dan Snow hears conflicting accounts of the 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.

There are conflicting versions of events when it comes to the British mutiny at Etaples in September 1917, from the soldiers who took part in it, to the military policeman who witnessed it. They tell their stories, along with Officer Jim Davies, who was ordered to help put the mutiny down, at the centre of the action on the bridge between the army camp and the town. With Dan Snow and Peter Hart.

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Dan Snow tells the story of World War I through the voices of those who were there.

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