SENTENCED TO GAOL

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1935, Page 8

SENTENCED TO GAOL

LIEUT-COLONEL CASHIERED. GUILTY ON SERIOUS CHARGES. Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Daly, D. 5.0., MU., commanding .the 18th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, stationed at Brighton, has been sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude, says the Daily. Telegraph. He appeared before a General Courtmartial at Woolwich in July on twelve charges alleging offences against men in his employ. The President of the Court was Major-General J. K. Dick-Cunyng-ham. The War Office announced that he had been found not guilty on two of the charges (as announced by the president at the closing of the court on July 24) and guilty on the remaining ten; that he had been sentenced to be cashiered and to suffer penal servitude for a term of seven years. Two years of the sentence, it was stated, had been remitted. This means, in effect, that Colonel Daly will serve five years’ penal servitude. The charges on which he was found not guilty were the second and the tenth.

Lieutenant-Colonel Daly, who was represented by Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C., and Mr. Frank Milton, emphatically denied all the charges, and explained that he had offered to assist any of the troops who wanted work when they returned to England from India. Lieutenant-Colonel Daly, who is 52, has served in the Army more than thirty years. He was posted second lieutenant to the Royal Artillery in 1902, promoted lieutenant in 1905, and captain soon after the outbreak of the war. Three years later he was promoted to the rank of major. . Colonel Daly services with distinction in France and Flanders, and besides being awarded the M.C. and D.C.O. was four times mentioned in dispatches. An officer who is cashiered not only loses His commission but is permanently disqualified from serving the State in any capacity. . . . The use of the word in th 3 service is confined to the dismissal of a ed officer for “behaving in a scandalous manner unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,” in the words of the Army Act.