PENALTY FOR DESERTION.
.SENTENCE OF COURT-MARTIAL.
Ax impressive ceremony was conducted at the conclusion of Colonel Gibbon's address to tho sixteenth reinforcements at Trentham Camp, when a court-martial sentence was promulgated by the camp adjutant, Captain BelJ. The prisoner was a gunner in the tenth reinforcements, who had been convicted by court-martial of escaping from confinement at Trentham in December last, and of deserting from His Majesty's Forces, he having been found in civilian attire and engaged in civil employment at Kapiti Island during the present month. He was escorted by two military police into the centre of the hollow-square formed by the sixteenths, and when Captain Bell, mounted on horseback, commenced to read the proceedings the culprit liad his hat forcibly removed. He stood there facing the whole draft, while Captain Bell, in clearcut tones, read the charges and pronounced the sentence of 112 days' detention. The prisoner's hat was then replaced on his head, and he was marched off the ground in custody to serve his time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16310, 17 August 1916, Page 8
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