NAVAL OFFICER WITH DISTINGUISHED RECORD
RETIRED BY COURT-MARTIAL. DUNEDIN-BORN MAN WHO WAS IN ZEEBRUGGE RAID. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, Jan. 18. For having acted to the prejudice of good order and naval discipline, Engineer Lieutenant-Commander William Henry Edgar, of H.M.A.S. Anzac, has been deprived of two years’ seniority aDd placed on the retired list. This was the sentence of the Court Martial. • It is learned that the original sentence was inoro severe, but that it was reduced by the Navy Board. Commander Edgar, who was born in Dunedin, joined the navy 20 years ago and served with great distinction during the Great War. He was tho only Australian officer to tako part in tlte raid pX Zecbrugge. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 19 January 1929, Page 10
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