DISMISSED FROM AIR FORCE
SENTENCE IMPOSED ON AIRCRAFTSMAN PRIVATE AND GUNNER IMPRISONED (United Press Association) -AUCKLAND, September 18. The sentence of the court martial which sat at Papakura camp last week to hear charges against a member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and two members of the New Zealand Military Forces was promulgated today. Aircraftsman (first class) R. G. Walker was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment without hard labour and was ordered to be dismissed from his Majesty’s service with ignominy.
Private A. F. Johnson, 24th (Auckland) Battalion, was sentenced to 14 days’ detention, and Gunner J. Croft, ,9th Heavy Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, was sentenced to 30 days’ detention.
The three men were jointly charged with using violence to their superior officer, with creating disorder - to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, striking a person jin whose custody they were placed, and committing a civil offence, assault. \ In addition, Aircraftsman Walker was charged separately with wilfully injuring public property and with conduct to the prejudice of good Order and military discipline. Private Johnson was also separately charged with\ using insubordinate language to his superior officer.
The charges arose from incidents alleged to have occurred when the men were in an isolation hospital at the camp on August 15.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19400919.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Southland Times, Issue 24235, 19 September 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
213DISMISSED FROM AIR FORCE Southland Times, Issue 24235, 19 September 1940, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in