DRUMMED OUT.
1 Theft by a Sergeant at f Canberra. STANDARD STOLEN. SYDNEY, May 15. After the ceremonies at Canberra last Monday the military authorities discovered that the Royal Standard which a Light Horse trooper had carried behind the Duke of York throughout the pro- • ceedings had disappeared. An inquiry was held and a rapid search made in all the encampments, hotels and houses, even Government r House not being exempted. The strictest secrecy was observed, j Finally the flag was discovered folded l up in the kit of a sergeant of the Light Horse. j He was paraded and convicted of being I in the unauthorised possession of the Standard. 5 The Light Horse assembled on Wedt nesday when the sergeant was publicly ; deprived of his stripes and ignominiously drummed out of the service.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 7
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