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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2709, 2 March 1916, Page 9

As a result of a court-martial held j nl; Melbourne, Sdrgeant Lionel Lamljort Eaton, otherwise known as Conrad Constantino ICitel, has boon discharged from the Australian Imperial Force. He was (sentenced recently to lu days' detention for having given n false answer in his Attestation paper. The time expired Inst week, and ho was ordered to bo discharged from vlie Australian Imperial Forcos on account of his Gorman,parentage. Eitel, who is a journalist, went ns a member of the naval and expeditionary force to the North-west Pacific Islands, and was one of the party which captured the wireless station some miles from liabaul, New Britain, after a running light along, the J\aka Kaul Road. ICitel was afterwards a sergeant in the Liverpool training cam]], New South Wales. Ho was a candidate for the officers' school, and was later discharged on account of his Gcre man parentage, hut he did not despair ' of "getting to the front, lie re-enlisted in tho Imperial Force undor the name of Lionel Lambert En ton, and was arrested 011 the charge mentioned, and sentenced. Tho official report states that Fjitel gave a false answer when asked if lie had had previous experience with the force. He is regarded as n smart soldiet.