CHARGED WITH DESERTION
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR (By Telegrapn.—rrrsK Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday A soldier previously on home defence, who volunteered under an assumed name to get into the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, described himself as a conscientious objector when he was charged on two separate counts of desertion before a court-martial at Trentham today. He was Private Winston Andrew Boag. The prosecutor stated that the accused went on coast defence service the day the war began. Unsuccessful in attempts to enlist for overseas, he joined up under an assumed name. He deserted from the Trentham camp and was arrested at Auckland in civilian clothes after 223 days’ absence. While in custody he escaped from the guard house at Trentham and was absent one year and nine days before he surrendered himself in civilian clothes at Hamilton. Accused said he refused to plead “in accordance with military law,” and this was treated as a plea of not guilty. The Court has delivered its recommendations on both charges to the convening officer, the Adjutant-Gen-eral, Colonel A. E. Conway. The sentence will be announced after promulgation.
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21584, 21 November 1941, Page 4
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182CHARGED WITH DESERTION Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21584, 21 November 1941, Page 4
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