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| Picture No | 10793543 |
| Date | 1919 |
| Description | The Eagle hut disturbance, 1919 |
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Police officers taking an arrested American soldier to Bow Street station. The man had been arrested for playing a gambling game outside the Eagle Hut YMCA for American soldiers and sailors in Aldwych, an incident which sparked a riot of around 1000 who demanded the soldiers' release.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Illustrated London News, 15 March 1919 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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