FAILING TO REGISTER

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 158, 6 July 1917, Page 4

FAILING TO REGISTER

A FINE OF £10

. Tv the Magistrate's Court fo-d.ov w alter Highsted was charged witW ii V-vi ng squired by section 33 of the Military Service \r-t to ™ a ke application to be enrolled, in f.K o Fi rst Division .'of-the reserve, he failed to' do so. ■■'.''

The defendant said* lie filM in the National Roister caH. He enlisted in the Eleroiit.h Reinforcements, Jmt, as ne would have had to undergo an operation for goitre, he did' no*, follow the.matter up. TTp xr^.s willing to go now if the authorities" vouM take him ns he was. A National Register card pro?i UC; -ii y Sergeant Hanso" -l>owed Mint the defendnnt declared himself g l' hG Second Divisipn in November,

The defendnnt admitted- that he "■as not married—that vras to sVv m answer to tjje question on military card was virtually correct lorm of man-iage. Mr P. OB; ■Louehnan, S M pointed 0,,t that replying t- ,i tion on the card signed by him theff'of %n a serious offence. A nionSi?' h '? ltejinntive to be two months imprisonment with hard'

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