: The revolt at Etaples took place against the background of the weariness and disaffection Allied armies.. After three vears war, the jingoism of 1914 had replaced by cynicism and revolt. French army had broken into openly political rebellion, of the Socialist Russian division fighting Western Front near the Swiss border declared for Bolsheviks situation of the Westeen none, Western Sluallull hundreds of deserters themselves in bands, hiding from the military police, But the immediate cause of the uprising. at Etaples ruthlessness of the army instructors, and the savagery the discipline. No one knows how many British soldiers were executed discin inary oftences at camp. But just before his death in 1978, the famous dance leader Victor Sylvester revealed how he had been forced to take part in five shootings at the camp:
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