THREE MEN FACE COURT MARTIAL
VIOLENCE USED TO SUPERIOR OFFICER (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, September 12. Serious charges were brought against two soldiers and one member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force in a court martial at Papakura camp today as a result of incidents alleged to have occurred while the accused were in an isolation hospital at the camp on August 15. The accused were Aircraftsman (first class) R. G. 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, 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, assault.* 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 a 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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Southland Times, Issue 24230, 13 September 1940, Page 5
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171THREE MEN FACE COURT MARTIAL Southland Times, Issue 24230, 13 September 1940, Page 5
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