SELF-INFLICTED WOUND
PRISON TERM FOR SOLDIER DECISION OF COURT-MARTIAL (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 13. A sentence of three months’ imprisonment with r hard labour was imposed on Private Leslie Gordon Taylor, an 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 home at Hornby. He fired two shots from a double-barrelled shotgun through his left boot, inflicting a wound in his great toe, which, however, did not render him unfit for military service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24685, 14 August 1941, Page 3
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