GAOL FOR SOLDIER
SELF-INFLICTED WOUND SHOTS IN GREAT TOE (Per Presß Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A sentence of thrde months’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed on Private Leslie Gordon Taylor, a New Zealand Expeditionary Force soldier at Burnham camp; who pleaded guilty before a court-martial, to a charge of wilfully wounding himself. Taylor was on final leave on June 6 when he went rabbit shooting near his home at Hornby. He fired two shots from a double-barrelled shotgun through his left boot, inflicting a wound in his great toe which, however, did not render him unfit for military service.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 14 August 1941, Page 8
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