New Zealand soldiers charged with mutiny during the First World War

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This is a list of 34 New Zealand soldiers charged with mutiny during the First World War. It comes from the book British Army Mutineers 1914-1922 by Julian Putkowski. It is organised by unit, rank, name, location, date, offence, finding/punishment, amendment, and archives reference (Public Records Office, Kew, UK).

It does not cover other court martials and those charged with desertion or other offences—offences that make up over nine packed boxes of records at Archives New Zealand.

I may look to write about this in the future, as unfortunately there's little or nothing online. There's some info about Sling Camp riots here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling_Camp but the little literature on New Zealand WW1 mutinies is in print. The two main sources are Nicholas Boyack, Behind the Lines: The Lives of New Zealand Soldiers in the First World War, Allen and Unwin, Wellington 1989; and Christopher Pugsley, On the Fringe of Hell: New Zealanders and Military Discipline in the First World War, Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland 1991, which refers to several mutinies and the military executions of NZ troops.