DETENTION FOR SIX
MONTHS
SOLDIER GUILTY OF DESERTION
Found-guilty by a court-martial of desertion and escaping from confinement, Gunner Robert Edward Steel. 2nd N;Z.E.F„ lias been sentenced to six months’ detention. When Steel appeared before the court-martial at Burnham on February 7 he, pleaded not guilty to both charges. The desertion charge was that, having been warned for active service, and with intent to evade such service, he absented himself without leave from December 27 until he himself up at Balclutha on January 9 -According to-the second charge, Steel escaped from the detention barracks at Burnham on December 27,
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24503, 28 February 1945, Page 5
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