Stock Photo - Some of the accused privates, escorted by an armed sentry at Kluang Airfield.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.

Stock Photo: Some of the accused privates, escorted by an armed sentry at Kluang Airfield.In May 1946, at the Muar Camp in Malaya, over 250 privates refused to obey orders.

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