The Battle for Grosvenor Square

Abstract

On Sunday, March 17, an estimated 10,000 people, for the most part young, gathered in Grosvenor Square following a meeting in Trafalgar Square to protest against the Vietnam war. To control them in the Square were some 800 policemen. In the violence that followed 117 policemen were injured, four of whom were detained in hospital. Proceedings were later taken against 246 demonstrators. Below we recount, for the most part in his own words, the experience of one young man who was in Grosvenor Square that Sunday.