A SALUTARY LESSON

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2438, 17 April 1915, Page 8

A SALUTARY LESSON

TROOPERS IMPRISONED FOR MISSING THEIR PASSAGE. Trentlam camp was the scene of an incident which doubtless will serve as a lesson to all who witnessed it in respect to the committing of a misdemeanour by a soldier on "active service. Four • men belonging to the Third Reinforcements, who went ashore • during the time the troopship lay at an AtfrtTalian port, missed their passage. They were brought back to New. Zealand recently and. were duly tried and convicted by the District Court-martial, and at 5 p.m. on Thursday were paraded, for punishment and sentence. The whole of the forces in camp, about 4000 men, were formed up in hollow'square, and at a signal the offenders, bare-headed, were marched out frqsj camp in charge of an armed guard of military police. As each man was brought out ; his name was read, and a sentence of six months', imprisonment with hard labour in the common gaol was imposed, and the man was formally dismissed from the New Zealand Forces. The sentences were announced amidst a profound silence by Major Neillj Staff Officer to the Fourth Reinforcements'. The names of the men were: Privates Walter Walsh, Edward Crawford, Wm. Doyle, and James M'Cutoheon.