ROYAL STANDARD STOLEN
CANBERRA INCIDENT IGNOMINY FOR THIEF By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright SYDNEY, Sunday. After the ceremonies at Canberra last Monday the military authorities discovered that the Royal Standard which a Light Horse trooper had carried behind the Duke of York throughout the proceedings had disappeared. An inquiry was held aad a rapid search made in all the encampments, hotels and houses, even Government House not being exempted. The strictest secrecy was observed. Finally the flag was discovered folded up in the kit of a sergeant of the Light Horse. He was paraded and convicted of being in the unauthorised possession of the Standard. The Light Horse assembled on Wednesday when the sergeant was publicly deprived of his stripes and ignominiously drummed out of the service.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 May 1927, Page 9
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