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Sir Roger DeLodgerley wrote:DMcNay wrote:Howitzers in the city chambers?
I doubt that very much. Howitzers are heavy guns designed to fire shells at much higher angles than field guns. That makes them ideal for trench warfare, where the projectile acts more like a bomb than a shell, but practically useless for crowd control in a city environment. Machine guns would have been much more likely, surely?
DMcNay wrote: ...............How exactly would you get a field gun into the City chambers?
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DMcNay wrote:In terms of what regiments were used to quell the riots, I hope no-one minds if I quote myself:DMcNay wrote:Not sure of the accuracy of this, but wikipedia has a footnote saying that the 4th (reserve) Battalion of the Royal Scots was deployed to Glasgow in 1919:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots
It's footnote number 79. I'll ask one of my friends to look up the Royal Scots regimental history, it might mentioned something about this.
So...if that's true, it wasn't an English regiment, or a Scottish Highland regiment. It was a Scots Lowland regiment.
Always remembering of course that Wikipedia can be totally unreliable.
I've read a lot of talk of "English troops" and "Scottish troops kept in their barracks" but very little actual written evidence that this was the case. The only written evidence I can find (but have yet to confirm) tells me it was a lowland Scots regiment that was deployed.
Howitzers in the city chambers? Where would they have put them? Any photos of them?
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