CANBERRA STANDARD
A SERGEANT’S THEFT. .'Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) # SYDNEY, May 15. After Monday’s ceremonies at Canberra, the military authorities discovered that the Royal’ Standard, which a Light Horse' trooper carried behind the Duke of York throughout the proceedings, had disappeared. An inquiry was held, and a rapid search made in all the encampment hotels and houses, even Government House not being exempted. The strictest ■secrecy was observed. Finally it was discovered folded up in the kit of a Sergeant of the Light Horse. lie was paraded and convicted of unauthorised possession of the standard. The Light Horse assembled on Wednesday, when he was publicly deprived of stripes and ignominiously drummed out of the Service.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1927, Page 5
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115CANBERRA STANDARD Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1927, Page 5
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