SOLDIER SENTENCED
THREE MONTHS’ HARD LABOUR.
CHARGE OF WILFULLY WOUNDING HIMSELF. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ‘ CHRISTCHURCH, August 12. A sentence of three months’ imprisonment with 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 the great toe which, however, did not render him unfit for military service.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 6
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