PRISON FOR DESERTION
OFFENCE BY SOLDIER P.A. WELLINGTON, Thursday. Sentence in the case in which Private Colin Lyall Meryyn Croskery pleaded guilty at a military district court - martial to two charges of desertion, has been promulgated. The Court's decision was that the soldier be imprisoned with hard labour for two years, and the confirming officer mitigated the punishment to imprisonment with hard labour for 22 months and eighteen days. The case was one in which the soldier was charged that, with intent to avoid embarkation, he absented himself without leave from the 37th Battalion of the Third New Zealand Division, and that he absented himself without leave from the Thrd New Zealand Division rear case depot.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 152, 29 June 1945, Page 7
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