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NEW ZEALAND FLYING OFFICER. COURT-MARTIAL SENTENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Flying Officer Donald Gillanders, New Zealand, was found guilty on three charges on which he was tried by court-martial at Wigram oil June 16 and has been sentenced to be cashiered. The sentence of the court was promulgated today. Flying Officer Gillanders was found guilty of behaving in a scandalous manner, unbecoming fo the character of an officer and a gentlemanr, in that he passed disparaging and insulting remarks about the Air Force in the Bush Inn, on April 15, 1941, and about Squadron Leader G. N. Roberts, commanding officer of No. 1 General Reconnaissance Squadron, Whenuapai. He was also found guilty on two charges of absenting himself without leave from Whenuapai. In sentencing Gillanders to be cashiered, the court ordered that he forfeit all ordinary pay for the periods of his absence from duty.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 6
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148CASHIERED Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 6
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