POSED AS CAPTAIN
PRIVATE'S AMAZING DECEIT Still wearing captain's uniform with smart soldierly bearing, and looking considerably older than his actual age, Rex Rowland Timms, aged 17, charged in the name of Michael Guy Standisb._ of Spencer Mansions, Queen's Club. London, W., pleaded guilty at Epping. Kssex, to charges of representing; himself as Captain Standish; obtaining £lO by false pretences; and obtaining by false pretences goods value £lO from a London store. He was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment. It was stated that Timms, masquerading as Captain Standish, of the Tank Corps, got into conversation with an Army officer and an Royal Air Force officer in a London theatre and, after visiting a number of cluhs with them, was accommodated for two days in the officers' mess of an aerodrome.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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130POSED AS CAPTAIN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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