Desertion Charge
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. “It is up to the court to give this man a fighting chance,’’ said Captain B. Pleasants, of the New Zealand Regiment, when defending a soldier who admitted five years’ desertion from a territorial unit, before a district court martial today. A declaration by an Auckland Hospital Board relief officer for the information of the court stated that accused’s family circumstances were “the most distressing he had ever seen.” Accused, Cedric Meredith, formerly of the First District Composite Company of the New Zealand Army Service Corps, surrendered 'to the police on March 18 after five years and two weeks’ absence from his unit.
The sentence will be promulgated,
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Northern Advocate, 29 March 1947, Page 2
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114Desertion Charge Northern Advocate, 29 March 1947, Page 2
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