Kluang court martial 1946
Captain F.S.Ward, who conducted the prosecution against the accused privates, seen here on the left wearing cap, with two of his assistants
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13990469
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In May 1946, at the Muar Camp in Malaya, over 250 privates refused to obey orders and were later charged with mutiny. Three were acquitted, eight sentenced to five years penal servitude and the rest two years imprisonment. When news reached the UK, two days after sentencing, the Judge Advocate-General quashed the sentences due to irregularities that made the trial unsatisfactory
Date
1946
