WED, THEN ARRESTED
SOLDIER LEFT HIS UNIT SYDNEY, Aug. 21. Military police followed him from the church where he was married, and arrested him after he had been photographed with his wife, Private Leslie Victor Terrason, aged 24, a militiaman, told a district court martial at Victoria Barracks. Terrason, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of desertion, said that he left his unit on July 4 to see his mother, who was ill. He married on August 8. The military police followed him from the church to a city photographer’s studio. They allowed him to be photographed with his wife before they arrested him. He did not intend to desert, but to try and obtain a transfer to a labour unit. The decision of the court will be promulgated later.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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131WED, THEN ARRESTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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