SENTENCE CONFIRMED
SOLDIER ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE. (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The sentence of 28 days’ imprisonment, with hard labour, imposed by the district court-martial on Gunner Gilbert Hall, of the 88th Battery, New Zealand Artillery, has been confirmed by Brigadier Mead and promulgated. Hall was charged with having been absent without leave from Battery 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 9, and was arrested by military police in Christchurch on August 20. At the court-martial, which was held on Tuesday, 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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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 282, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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