MILITARY DEFAULTERS
Pleading guilty to a charge of remaining in New Zealand after his unit had left for overseas, thereby committing desertion, Neil Richmond Russ, solnier, was sentenced by Mr. Stout in the Magistrates’ Court, AVellington, yesterday to three months’ imprisonment to be followed by detention in a defaulters’ camp. Senior Sergeant G. J. Paine said Russ had served in camp with a Field Ambulance unit. He admitted when arrested that his reason for deserting was to avoid going overseas. He had shown conscientious objection tendencies while in camp. ~ Keith Francis Robertson, soldier, who pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to render service, was sentenced to detention in a defaulters’ camp. 'Senior Sergeant Paine said Robertson had been called up for service in 1941.' An appeal on the grounds of conscientious objection had been dismissed, and a subsequent appeal by his employer had also been dismissed. When later drafted he had refused to obey an order to parade in battledress.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 10, 7 October 1943, Page 3
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161MILITARY DEFAULTERS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 10, 7 October 1943, Page 3
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