[BITList] Fwd: The plot thickens !

[John Feltham]

G'day Hugh,

On holding back information .... my father joined the Argyll & Southern Highlanders in 1925. Aged 25 his record says, but he was aged 17 years and 1 month. He was a joiner, it says - not at 17 he wasn't. In 1929, serving in Jamaica, he and two others were court-martialled for mutiny and given 5 years penal servitude The news of the court martial wasn't released until 9 months after it - newspapers all over the world demanded to know why. The sentence was reduced to 2 years after a lot of shouting in parliament.  The court martial records seem unobtainable.
 

My first search revealed this….


http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46561098 <http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46561098>

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53438508 <http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53438508>

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97660124 <http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97660124>


ooroo



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