ALLEGED DESERTION
TWO MEN COURTMARTIALLED
(P.A.) CHRISTGHURCH, This Day.
Charges of desertion from the Burnham Military Camp with intent to avoid embarkation were preferred against two soldiers of the Second N.Z.E.F. at a district court-martial at Burnham. this morning. The accused were Privates William Henry Hudson and Gordon Noel Boyd. Each was charged with desertion in that being posted for active service he absented himself without leave before embarkation and failed to return to camp until after the draft had sailed for overseas.
Hudson was arrested by the military police, but Boyd voluntarily returned to camp. In both cases the findings of the Court will be communicated to the convening officer (Brigadier O. H. Mead), and promulgated in due course.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1941, Page 8
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120ALLEGED DESERTION Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1941, Page 8
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