THEFT OF STANDARD
Australian" light horse SERGEANT DRUMMED OUT (United Press Association.—Copyright.) ... ' ■ SYDNEY, 15th‘May. After Monday’s cetcmonies at Canberra the military authorities discover'd that a Royal Standard, which a •Light Horse trooper carried behind the Duke of York throughout the proceedlngs, had disappeared. An inquiry was held and a rapid search made in all encampments, hotels, and houses, even Government House not being exempted. The strictest secrecy was observed, and finally the Standard was discovered folded up in the kit of a sergeant of the Light Horse. He was paraded and convicted of the unauthorised possession of the Standard, and the Light Horse assembled on Wednesday, -when he was publicly deprived of his stripes and ignommionsly drummed out of the service.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 9
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121THEFT OF STANDARD Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 9
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