Extract from Queensland Police Gazette.
(From Police Gazette, 1899, page 252.) DESERTERS FROM HER MAJESTY’S SERVICE. Deserted from “A ” Battery, Queensland Permanent Artillery, at Lytton Fort, on the 13th instant, Thomas Day, gunner, and William Chari Chaston, gunner. Descriptions: First, 22£ years of age, 5 ft. 8J in. high, medium build, fresh complexion, dark-brown hair, hazel eyes; a labourer, and native of Cunnamulla, Queensland. Said to be known to Mr. Clark, Tent Hill, Gatton. Second, 25£ years of age, 5 ft. in. high, fresh complexion, lightbrown hair, blue eyes; a blacksmith, and native of Stone, New South Wales. His father, Charles Chaston, is said to reside in Newcastle, New South Wales.—O. 1028. 20th May, 1899. [Special inquiry is requested for these men in New Zealand, hut it is not desirable that they should he apprised of such inquiry. If traced, information is to be sent by wire to the Commissioner of Police, Wellington. (99/1822.)]
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXIII, Issue 22, 25 October 1899, Page 232
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154Extract from Queensland Police Gazette. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXIII, Issue 22, 25 October 1899, Page 232
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