Absent Without Leave

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 696, 22 June 1929, Page 18

Absent Without Leave

Impetuous Earl’s Name Removed from Army List

BHE “London Gazette” recently contained the following announcement: “Irish Guards: SecondLieut. The Earl of Aylesford is removed from the Army for absence without leave. March 9, 1929.” It is stated that the announcement

he handed in his

in the "London Gazette” was the result of a mistake made by Lord Aylesford in his reading of the King’s Regulations. Lord Aylesford, who is 20, had decided to resign from the Army and take up a civil career. Early in April papers. Instead of

waiting for them to pass through the normal channels and to receive his discharge he immediately absented himself from his unit. Shooting Trip in East Shortly afterward he started for a shooting trip in the East, and is now

in Kashmir. The result was that he was reported as having absented himself. , "The whole thing is the result ol an impulsive young man not having read the King’s Regulations pr°k erly,” the Hon. Charles D. FinchKnightly, the trustee of Lord Aylesford’s estate, told a representative oj "The Daily Chronicle.” "The incident occurred some weeks ago, and is well known to most of his friends.” Father Killed The earl entered Sandhurst in 19-®' thus adopting the career of his fa-ke.. Lord Guernsey (then heir to the title ■ Lord Guernsey, who was a captaj” of the Irish Guards, was killed at Battle of the Aisne in September. 19 14 - , The earl was gazetted secon lieutenant last August. He owns about 9.000 acres, an “ LT four residences —Abbots RiPh?** ? ' ■ Huntingdon, Packington and D*djjj~ ton Halls, Coventry, and the Friar 5 ' I Aylesford. . , ! He is a keen motorist i August hi 3 licence was endrosed | he was fined for driving a car to I public danger.