COURT-MARTIAL FOR TERRITORIALS
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE | I (P.A.) Ashburton, May 13. | « Two Territorials were charged be- | i fore a court-martial with being ab- 1 sent without leave and attempting to | 1 escape while under arrest. Private j j Colin Valpie Jury was further < charged with having offered violence 1 to a person in whose custody he was placed and attacking and threaten- 1 ing a private with a bayonet. Rus- < sell Vincent Gibson was further r charged with using violence to a su- 1 perior officer in that he struck with his list and open hand on the face, and with a bayonet the body of a lance-corporal who was at the time in command of an escort taking accused to a tent. Both admitted their absence, plead- j ing not guilty to the other charges, j The findings of the Court will be | promulgated.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 14 May 1942, Page 3
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