SERIOUS CHARGES.
SOLDIERS COUET-MARTIALLED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, bept.- ,12. Serious charges were brought against two soldiers and one member of tlie Royal New Zealand Air Eorec in a court-martial at Papakura Camp to-day, as the result of incidents alleged to have occurred while accused were in the isolation hospital at the camp on August 15. Accused were Aircraftsman First Class R. C. Walker, Gunner J. Croft, New Zealand Artillery, and Private A. F. Johnson, Auckland Battalion. The men were charged jointly with using violence to their superior officer and creating disorder to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, striking a person in whose custody they were placed, and with committing a civil offence, assauit. Walker was also charged separately with wilfully damaging public property by setting a coal-box alight and Johnson was charged with using insubordinate language to his superior officer.
After the decision of the court-mar-tial has been confirmed and promulgated it will be posted in routine orders.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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162SERIOUS CHARGES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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