GILBERTIAN TOUCH.
“UNDESIRABLE” AIRMAN. * (Rec. 11.35 a.m., LONDON, July 10. ( Stepping from a British liomber J; after raiding Best, Pilot-Officer Harold a Isaac Coriat found deteetivos waiting V to arrest him. Nine months after he j Jiatf begun to bomb tlio Germans it was discovered he was an “undesir- f j able alien.” V j, Coriat pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to making a misleading statement n in his application for an R.A.F. com- n mission, purporting ho was Robert w Coryat, aged 34, born in Devonshire, \ whereas ho was 38 and born in Mor- ( . • occo. His previous convictions included 9 months in New Zealand in 1928 h for false pretences and a sentence in c , Australia for passing valueless chc- p <iucs. p Defending counsel described the situ- t< ation as Gilbertian. Coriat was guilty p of obtaining the right to fight for the country he regarded as his own. a A wing-commander gave evidence of ti C'oriat’s courage being up to the li standard of the R.A.F, He would ho ol a loss to the R.A.F. Accused was sc hound over for two years and dismiss- hi cd from the R.A.F. lx
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 193, 17 July 1941, Page 8
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