Tuesday 16th May 2017
An email from Danny Howell to Philip Clark:
Hello Philip,
At this year’s ANZAC Service at Sutton Veny you asked me if I could verify something you had read (but forgot where) about a fight involving soldiers at Sutton Veny which resulted in the soldiers having to be separated.
Could it be that you read this in Gertrude McCracken’s booklet Looking Back On Seventy Years Of Sutton Veny, published in June 1981?
The last paragraph on page 17 reads:
“The British troops were eventually moved out of the village and the Australian soldiers moved in. Around the same time, soldiers from Canada and New Zealand moved in to Codford and the Wylye Valley. Not long after they arrived a fight started between all three nationalities near Pine Cottages on the Tytherington road. Two men were killed and it was rumoured that forty had been injured. The New Zealanders were then moved onto Salisbury Plain and the Canadians transferred elsewhere.”
Regards, Danny.
Philip Clark has replied –
Thank you, Danny. You’re a STAR!
Regards,
Philip.