TURNER.—On October 3, 1938, Charles Harcourt, dearly beloved husband of Annie Turner, 47 Tinakori Road, in his 76th year. Private interment. No flowers, please. (Evening Post Oct. 4, 1938)
NOTE: Before WWI, he was manager of the Wellington branch of the Blackball Coal Co.
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DISMISSED !
THE MOTUIHI ESCAPADE
COLONEL TURNER FOUND GUILTY BY COURT-MARTIAL.
AUCKLAND, February 21. The sentence of the court-martial on Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Harcourt Turner on charges in connection with the escape of German prisoners from the Motuihi internment camp (of which he was commandant) has been promulgated. The court found Turner guilty on the first charge and not guilty on the second and third charges. He was sentenced to he dismissed from the Defence Forces under section 23 of the Defence Act Amendment, 1912. The sentence has been confirmed by General Robin.
The charges against Colonel Turner were:-
(1) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons committed to his charge, in that he, at Motuihi Island, on or about the thirteenth day of December, 1917, while Commandant of the said island, and having the care, charge, and custody upon the said island of certain prisoners of war and interned alien enemies, to wit, one Lieutenant-Commander Count von Luckner [Findagrave #22038], Lieutenant Kirscheiss, Wireless-Operator Grun, Wireless-Engineer Freund, Naval Cadets von Zalorski, Paulson, Schmidt, Mellert, Klohn, Seaman Erdmann, and one von Egidy, a Samoan Government official, allowed the said Count von Luckner and others mentioned, being prisoners of war or interned alien enemies, to obtain possession of a launch, and to make other preparations for their escape without taking reasonable means to prevent it, and thus permitted the escape of the said Lieutenant-Commander Count von Luckner and other persons mentioned.
(2) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons whom it was his duty to keep in having done the acts alleged in the particulars to the first charge.
(3) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons whom it was his duty to guard in having done the acts alleged in the particulars to the first charge. (New Zealand Times, Feb. 22, 1918, via Press Association)
NOTE: Before WWI, he was manager of the Wellington branch of the Blackball Coal Co.
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DISMISSED !
THE MOTUIHI ESCAPADE
COLONEL TURNER FOUND GUILTY BY COURT-MARTIAL.
AUCKLAND, February 21. The sentence of the court-martial on Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Harcourt Turner on charges in connection with the escape of German prisoners from the Motuihi internment camp (of which he was commandant) has been promulgated. The court found Turner guilty on the first charge and not guilty on the second and third charges. He was sentenced to he dismissed from the Defence Forces under section 23 of the Defence Act Amendment, 1912. The sentence has been confirmed by General Robin.
The charges against Colonel Turner were:-
(1) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons committed to his charge, in that he, at Motuihi Island, on or about the thirteenth day of December, 1917, while Commandant of the said island, and having the care, charge, and custody upon the said island of certain prisoners of war and interned alien enemies, to wit, one Lieutenant-Commander Count von Luckner [Findagrave #22038], Lieutenant Kirscheiss, Wireless-Operator Grun, Wireless-Engineer Freund, Naval Cadets von Zalorski, Paulson, Schmidt, Mellert, Klohn, Seaman Erdmann, and one von Egidy, a Samoan Government official, allowed the said Count von Luckner and others mentioned, being prisoners of war or interned alien enemies, to obtain possession of a launch, and to make other preparations for their escape without taking reasonable means to prevent it, and thus permitted the escape of the said Lieutenant-Commander Count von Luckner and other persons mentioned.
(2) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons whom it was his duty to keep in having done the acts alleged in the particulars to the first charge.
(3) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons whom it was his duty to guard in having done the acts alleged in the particulars to the first charge. (New Zealand Times, Feb. 22, 1918, via Press Association)
TURNER.—On October 3, 1938, Charles Harcourt, dearly beloved husband of Annie Turner, 47 Tinakori Road, in his 76th year. Private interment. No flowers, please. (Evening Post Oct. 4, 1938)
NOTE: Before WWI, he was manager of the Wellington branch of the Blackball Coal Co.
**
DISMISSED !
THE MOTUIHI ESCAPADE
COLONEL TURNER FOUND GUILTY BY COURT-MARTIAL.
AUCKLAND, February 21. The sentence of the court-martial on Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Harcourt Turner on charges in connection with the escape of German prisoners from the Motuihi internment camp (of which he was commandant) has been promulgated. The court found Turner guilty on the first charge and not guilty on the second and third charges. He was sentenced to he dismissed from the Defence Forces under section 23 of the Defence Act Amendment, 1912. The sentence has been confirmed by General Robin.
The charges against Colonel Turner were:-
(1) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons committed to his charge, in that he, at Motuihi Island, on or about the thirteenth day of December, 1917, while Commandant of the said island, and having the care, charge, and custody upon the said island of certain prisoners of war and interned alien enemies, to wit, one Lieutenant-Commander Count von Luckner [Findagrave #22038], Lieutenant Kirscheiss, Wireless-Operator Grun, Wireless-Engineer Freund, Naval Cadets von Zalorski, Paulson, Schmidt, Mellert, Klohn, Seaman Erdmann, and one von Egidy, a Samoan Government official, allowed the said Count von Luckner and others mentioned, being prisoners of war or interned alien enemies, to obtain possession of a launch, and to make other preparations for their escape without taking reasonable means to prevent it, and thus permitted the escape of the said Lieutenant-Commander Count von Luckner and other persons mentioned.
(2) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons whom it was his duty to keep in having done the acts alleged in the particulars to the first charge.
(3) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons whom it was his duty to guard in having done the acts alleged in the particulars to the first charge. (New Zealand Times, Feb. 22, 1918, via Press Association)
NOTE: Before WWI, he was manager of the Wellington branch of the Blackball Coal Co.
**
DISMISSED !
THE MOTUIHI ESCAPADE
COLONEL TURNER FOUND GUILTY BY COURT-MARTIAL.
AUCKLAND, February 21. The sentence of the court-martial on Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Harcourt Turner on charges in connection with the escape of German prisoners from the Motuihi internment camp (of which he was commandant) has been promulgated. The court found Turner guilty on the first charge and not guilty on the second and third charges. He was sentenced to he dismissed from the Defence Forces under section 23 of the Defence Act Amendment, 1912. The sentence has been confirmed by General Robin.
The charges against Colonel Turner were:-
(1) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons committed to his charge, in that he, at Motuihi Island, on or about the thirteenth day of December, 1917, while Commandant of the said island, and having the care, charge, and custody upon the said island of certain prisoners of war and interned alien enemies, to wit, one Lieutenant-Commander Count von Luckner [Findagrave #22038], Lieutenant Kirscheiss, Wireless-Operator Grun, Wireless-Engineer Freund, Naval Cadets von Zalorski, Paulson, Schmidt, Mellert, Klohn, Seaman Erdmann, and one von Egidy, a Samoan Government official, allowed the said Count von Luckner and others mentioned, being prisoners of war or interned alien enemies, to obtain possession of a launch, and to make other preparations for their escape without taking reasonable means to prevent it, and thus permitted the escape of the said Lieutenant-Commander Count von Luckner and other persons mentioned.
(2) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons whom it was his duty to keep in having done the acts alleged in the particulars to the first charge.
(3) Without reasonable excuse allowing to escape persons whom it was his duty to guard in having done the acts alleged in the particulars to the first charge. (New Zealand Times, Feb. 22, 1918, via Press Association)
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