TROIS ARBRES CEMETERY
Private John King
1st Battalion Canterbury Regiment (New Zealand) executed for desertion 19/08/1917 It is known that the name 'John King' was an alias, but records do not reveal his true identity. What is known is that he was a miner by trade, and was one of three Australians to be executed, because he was serving in a NZ Regiment. The Australians refused to execute any of their own volunteers for breaches of discipline. Australia said 'Any man who volunteered for hell couldn’t be faulted, or shot, because he’d had enough'. |
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