SOLDIERS PUNISHED.
SIX MONTHS’ HARD LABOUR AND DISMISSED FROM FORCES. An unusually impressive ceremony was performed at Treutham camp at 5 o’clock on Friday afternoon, when four members of the 3rd. Reinforcements, who had missed their boat at Albany and had been brought back to New Zealand, were paraded for punishment, after having been duly tried and convicted by District CourtMartial. The whole of the forces in camp, comprising some 4,000 men, were drawn up on the parade ground and formed a hollow square, with officers in front. The offenders, when the signal was given, were marched out from the camp detention enclosure, each prisoner being bare-headed and accompanied by an armed guard of military police. As each man was brought up his sentence of six months’ imprisonment with hard labour in the common gaol and dismissal from the New Zealand Military Forces was read out by Major Neill, Staff Officer of the 4th Reinforcements. Each man as he received his punishment was then led away under armed guard before the whole force. The men so sentenced were Privates Walter Walsh, Edward Crawford, William Doyle, and James M’Cutcbeou,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1388, 20 April 1915, Page 2
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188SOLDIERS PUNISHED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1388, 20 April 1915, Page 2
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