Kluang court martial 1946

In the foreground on the left is Lieutenant Savin, a London police officer sent to Malaya to investigate the charges of mutiny. On the rights is Lieutenant Hewat of the Black Watch, Assistant Provost-Marshal, in charge of the prisoners.~~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

Kluang Malaya Malaysia Muar Mutiny Privates Provost Savin

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