Talk:Kinmel Park Riots

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[edit] Kinmel Park Camp

The riots that took place there were witnessed by my Father in Law who was recuperating at the hospital. He was also a local boy. He served with the machine gun corp and was seriously injured at Cambrai. He told me that he had been told not to go near the Canadian camp as there was likely to be trouble. He watched as the riots unfolded. There is a Sandstone memorial to the Canadians who died at the camp but many also died of the flu.He said that apart from the awful conditions in the camp that a ship had docked in Liverpool from Canada but as the war was over it returned to Canda olong with the fresh troops and that the inmates of the camp said that they should have been taken home first. Every year we lay a wreath at the memorial on Remembrance Day Sunday. The old camps were later pulled down and another camp called Kinmel ,but not on the Kinme estate was built in the early thirties .I have yet to find any reference to thie camp in this era. It was a traing camp for drivers(31 trg Regt RA) and for Signallers (38 Trg regt RA) The camp is now an industrial estate with a sm;ll remnant of the camp still used by the TA.--Ginger brain (talk) 19:08, 5 April 2008 (UTC)