Picture No | 10645890 |
Date | 1946 |
Description | Kluang court martial 1946 |
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Presiding officer of the court martial, Brigadier M.V.Wright (left), commander of the 14th Indian Infantry Brigade, with members of the court awaiting the start of the day's proceedings. The Judge-Advocate, Major J.D.M.Smith, is wearing a black beret.~~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.
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Source | The Sphere 5 October 1946 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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