Battle of Bulford

The Battle of Bulford is the colourful name applied to a brief mutiny by soldiers of the Australia New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), stationed at Bulford Camp on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England following the end of the First World War.
At the time, Bulford Camp was being used to house ANZAC troops awaiting repatriation. The belief that others were receiving preferential treatment, amongst other complaints, led the ANZACs to mutiny. Rumours spread to other nearby units that the ANZACs were rampaging through nearby villages, that an officer had been killed, and another tar-and-feathered. It was said that the women of the villages were in 'dire danger'.
Other units stationed nearby, including artillerymen from the School of Instruction for Royal Horse and Field Artillery at Larkhill Camp, were sent in with small arms. They surrounded the camp, under orders to allow no one to enter or exit except senior officers and supply lorries. The mutiny died out after two days without any serious fighting.

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