Soldier Sentenced
Per Presa Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 13. A sentence of three months’ hard labour was imposed on Private Leslie Gordon Taylor, ail Expeditionary Force soldier, of 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 homo at Hornby. He fired two shots from a double-barrelled shotgun through his left boot, inflicting a wound in a toe, which, however,.did not render him unfit for military service.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 192, 14 August 1941, Page 4
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