R.A.F. PILOT ARRESTED
“UNDESIRABLE ALIEN.” (Rec. 11.35 a.m.)xLONDON, July 16. Stepping from a British bomber, after raiding Brest, Pilot Officer Harold Issac Coriat, found detectives waiting to arrest him. Nine months after he had begun to bomb the Germans, it was discovered that he was an “undesirable alien.” Coriat pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to making a misleading statement in his application for an R.A.F. commission, purporting that he was Robert Coryat, aged 34. born in Devonshire, whereas he is 38 and was born in Morocco. His previous convictions included nine months’ imprisonment in New Zealand in 1928, for false pretences, and a sentence in Australia for passing valueless cheques. Defending counsel described the situation as Gilbertian. Coriat was auilt.y of obtaining the right to fight for the country which he regarded as his own.
' A wing commander gave evidence of Coriat’s courage being up to the standard of the R.A.F. He would be a loss to the R.A.F. Accused was bound over for two years, and was dismissed from the R.A.F.—U.P.A.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1941, Page 8
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