SOLDIERS IN TROUBLE
VIOLENCE TO SUPERIOR OFFICER ALLEGED COURT-MARTIAL AT PAPAKURA [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 12. Serious charges were brought against two soldiers and one member of the (Royal New Zealand Air Force at a court-martial at Papakura camp today, the result of incidents alleged to have occurred while the accused were iu the isolation hospital at the camp on August 15. The accused were Aircraftman (first class) R. G. Walker, Gunner J. Croft, New Zealand Artillery, and Private A. E. Johnson Auckland Battalion. The men were charged jointly with using violence to their superior officer, creating disorder to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, striking the person in whose custody they were placed, and committing the civil offence of assault. Walker was also charged separately with wilfully damaging public property by setting a coalbox alight, and Johnson was charged with using insubordinate language to his superior officer. After the decision of the court-martial has been confirmed and promulgated it will be posted in routine orders.
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Evening Star, Issue 23679, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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170SOLDIERS IN TROUBLE Evening Star, Issue 23679, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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