Following along after the Great War my Grandfather (mines rescue in the tunnels) went back underground but he remained on the reserve and during the 1921 miners strike got called up for the Royal Engineers. I have a pay slip from that time. They were sent to the Kent coalfield. But unrest was in the air and my Grandfather and his colleagues agreed that if they were called to shoot they would refuse the orders and shoot the officers. Of course it didn't come to that. But an interesting footnote to his army career.
https://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/story/tuc-150/hard-times-and-unrest/somerset-and-bristol-miners
