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Sunday, 26 July 2020

British transport Orontes transporting banned guard grenadiers back from Bermuda according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 22 July 1891

An item reported that a battalion guard grenadiers which was banned to St. Georges (Bermuda) caused by mutiny was allowed to return with the transport Orontes for their excellent behaviour.(1)

Note
1. This second battalion refused on 7 July 1890 in the Wellington barracks to allow officers to inspect their backpacks while this was such a waist of time.