SENTENCE CONFIRMED
GUNNER FOUND GUILTY OF DESERTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A sentence of 28 days’ imprisonment, with hard labour, imposed by a District Court-martial on Gunner Gilbert Hall, of the 88th Battery of New Zealand Artillery, has been confirmed and promulgated. Hall was charged with being absent without leave from the battery at Point Lyttelton. He was granted seven days’ special leave to visit his mother, who was ill in Dunedin, but failed to return at the expiry of his leave, on August §. and was arrested by military police in Christchurch on August 20. At the court-martial, which was held on September 2, Hall alleged that he was afraid to return to camp because of threats of bodily harm which he alleged had been made by the battery commander. . He later withdrew the statement.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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137SENTENCE CONFIRMED Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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