An officer thrust through the cordoned off housewives, carrying anti-war posters, he block the passage of the big army day parade in Ludgate Hill, central London, when 2000 troops marched through London to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the ceasefire in Europe. The officer, confronted by the women swerved aside at first enforced the way through. Mounted and the police cleared the women from the processional route then let them free. 6 may 1949