MILITARY BAND BOYS’ PROTEST
Refusal to Answer Roll-Call BARRICADE AGAINST AUTHORITIES By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received November 16, 9.30 p.m.) London, November 16. Sixteen band boys of the Leicestershire Regiment recruited from an English Roman Catholic orphanage barricaded themselves in a room in the barracks at Londonderry on Saturday as a protest against the conditions of service and declined to answer roll-call on Sunday. When they refused to surrender, the military lire brigade hosed the boys through the window. They replied with a fusillade of cups and other articles. knocking a fireman from a windowsill. Then their beds and furniture were discovered to be ablaze, necessitating further activities by the brigade. The boys ultimately walked out when the commandant of the battalion promised an investigation into their complaints.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 9
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127MILITARY BAND BOYS’ PROTEST Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 9
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