ERASED FROM THE ARMY LIST.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 208, 19 August 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

ERASED FROM THE ARMY LIST.

Bv th a time tiiu article appears the muu or Lieutenant Cameron, Royal Field Artillery, who was recently s>ntenteci ta three years’ penal servitude, n ill don oil-<s have been removed from the Army List a> the sequel to a Gazette ” announcement that His Ma- ■ etty Iris no further occa-iion for iiis •erviees.”

Few people understand what it means to an officer to have his name erased hod the Army List. The writer knows, tor he iiat suiterod the bitterness of it. it, is in itself a punishment severe enough to amply atone for any fault -.hurt of murder —and it has to be borne ia addition to the punishment that the la for his offence. A man may live down a sentence of imprisonment, but he -;u -iy can rid himself of the otigpna of having had his name removed from tho Army List : he remains a pariah to the end of his days.

SOLDIERS OF TLIE LEGION

JbsUvc _> are not numerous —theaveris I > • -bly not more than one a y.Tar in i ic British Army—but every i.'.itaue-.' j a tragedy. What becomes .4’ ths-* 1 ! roken men? In the past ivauY or ;>-. :u vnl.-ted as private soldiers un lei joiiime! names, and it .s ■> itkin >he writer’s k nov .edge that one at least of these m-e to commissioned Tank ag.dr.— -under hn alias, of course. I'll* it • o'-i.l be difficult foi a man so situated to enlist in these days, now that roterein'cs arc required from roll uiie. Sime take service under foreign Hags, either as officers—there are several Broken officers always to be found in the -land's of the South American Republics or as coni mon soldiers in th e f rench ! >» ’ ’gn Legion. It was a strenuous ton'. '• •* ho did not find the lot <■>« a h’c > i.-.rv by any means so hard as it iu tie-, r-'el in a m-mrly-published hook w , r - n by a German deserter, -ho. bv th<? way. never got beyond the dypnt '■ ->•■■■•• I >'• the legion a few me'' 1 -- Dnripg h’= service in the legion ’ - - r> t one other cxn;her . f i • Bi-t h \rmy, an ex-cap-tiUß r>! r;. i’ -n Vid ins, -n ex-officer of tho Ai ‘ 1 ' Vo’ r "i’ Stiff, an ox-'i tenan* ■ f ‘ L. ! b'rv. who gained EtlVOpO:* 1 : l ■■■..*.- ’ ■ blowing opt tl:"* I‘ratns it a brother-officer in cold blood. • wEiks a previons wound ho had given "hint wss ' dress-d by a doctor. This m-’n’s o-tradition was not asked for bv th- bbwman Covcrnmont. tboutdi Vis wh' was -’-.4 to bo wellItnew.i to *’>v authorities.

ON THE WEST COAST. The i -i-.w .-dsn m- - 't an ev-l- nit- n >:?. -of Han- ir ; ■" Hussars, who hail been *rtrt in • » i’ T.op'.n bv his f-‘h’r. a •■> L-«rn di-s iplinc. That genor:d km'..- : - ’»• he «.>; about. Ex-offi-■vetß cf t l :’ French Army are fairly rrers i:t the L * '-i* 1 —there wc—o f-vB in * ' write-’s at on r - tiiWg. "PiK - r j- s ~»■ » Bi-tish Arn-v and one of tV ’,-> Fi—’n-h '-’-:r mot I>v tho -r on the West C-»a«t of Airier >.b ' wes r-r.u.l’y-sl there a< •« po'tr.-..-' ■” ” o- V' lev’s asdstsnt. One of the hold the rank a Mack on the wed vffioem