IN DISGRACE
DRUMMED OUT OF THE ARMY THEFT OF ROYAL STANDARD AT CANBERRA Received May 15, 8 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) MELBOURNE, May 15. After Monday’s ceremonies at Canberra, the military authorities discovered that the Royal Standard, which a Light Horse trooper carried behind the Duke of York throughout the proceedings, had disappeared. An inquiry was held and a rapid search was made in all the encampments, hotels and houses, even Government House not being exempted, and the strictest mystery was observed. Finally, it was discovered folded up in tho kit of a sergehnt of the Light Horse. He was paraded and convicted of being in unauthorised possession of the standard, and the Light Horse assembled on Wednesday, when he was publicly deprived of his stripes and ignominously drummed out of the service.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19841, 16 May 1927, Page 7
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132IN DISGRACE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19841, 16 May 1927, Page 7
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