ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE
SOLDIER SENTENCED AT TRENTHAM
°(P,A.) WELLINGTON, November 25.
A sentence of 20 months’ imprisonment with hard labour has been imposed on Private Winston Andrew Boag on a charge of desertion in that he was absent without leave when in arrest at Trentham camp from October 29, 1940, till he surrendered to the civil police at Frankton Junction dressed in civilian clothes on November 6, 1941. He was found guilty of this charge by a district court martial which sat at Trentham on Thursday. The charges, findings and sentence were promulgated at the camp today. Boag was found not guilty on the charge of desertion from the 22nd Battalion, N.Z.E.F., at Trentham on April 7, 1940. It was disclosed at the proceedings that Boag was absent from camp for 223 days, from April 7, 1940, till he was arrested in Auckland while engaged with a construction company. Brought back to Trentham, he escaped while in arrest and was absent a year and nine days before he surrendered himself. The charges were heard separately, a verdict of not guilty being returned on the first charge and a verdict of guilty on the second.
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Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 6
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194ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 6
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