Historical Court Martial Dismissal Details

[Resmoroh]

Hello All,
This is to see if your memories are better than our definitely failing ones!! We both (Lyffe and myself) have vague recollections of dealing with this one very many years ago, but have no recollection now!!
The subject is:-
Flt Lt Eric Alfred Coningsby. (prob b. Q1 1909, m. Q3 1944, d. Q3 1955). Commissioned Flt Lt (140170 or 140179) from civilian into the Met Branch 1 Apr 43. Next he appears to be Dismissed by General Court Martial 2 Jan 44. The LG Commissioning and Dismissal entries have different Service Numbers. The difference may be a typo or an OCR problem?
Does anybody have the details?
Peter Davies

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

https://www.rafcommands.com/forum/ar...hp/t-8513.html

Col.

[paulmcmillan]

Eric Alfred CONINGSBY ( 140179)

[Lyffe]

Paul/Col,

I'd forgotten about my 2010 thread, not that it got anywhere, my only excuse being my 80+ grey cells are rather fewer in number.

The reason this has come up again is that although my original thread quoted Coningsby's service number as 140179, as per his commissioning (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/...upplement/3164) his dismissal does not come up when searching that number. His dismissal only comes up when searching for 140170. I was undoubtedly being more careless that usual since the text of the relevant link https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/...upplement/1671 does quote 140179.

And before anyone says anything I now realise that my grey cell count is actually approaching zero faster than I appreciated.

Brian

[Lyffe]

Further to my previous, I've just searched for 'Coningsby' and this brings up E.A. Coningsby (140170) in the truncated entry for the officer before one accesses the link, whereas the whole entry itself includes his real service number, 140179, not 140170.

Hope this makes sense, but I'm relieved that I've not lost as many grey cells as I thought.

Brian

[jonny]

This is in the public arena, so after a little cogitation I finally decided to respond to this thread. Flt Lt E. A. Coningsby was serving at 6 (RCAF) Group HQ Unit and his CM was convened at Allerton Hall, on 2 December 1943. He was found guilty of 2 counts of Indecency and one Miscellaneous offence under Sect 40 of MAFL (this is linked to the initial offence and you probably need to read this rather me pushing out anymore sensitive info about this individual). His was initially Cashiered, but his sentence was subsequently reduced to Dismissal.

Hope this helps!

Rgds

Jonny

[Resmoroh]

Jonny,
Very many thanks for that.
The attitudes (both public and official) to "Indecency" have changed a lot since the offence was committed - and the dreaded Section 40 was/is used as a "catchall".
The prurient may wish to investigate further, but your post is quite sufficient for my needs and I am very grateful that you posted the information. The man has been dead for 68 years.
Should another Court Martial case arise where does one go for archived materiel?
Rgds
Peter Davies

[jonny]

Peter,

You are most welcome. Please reach out to me directly in future and I may be able to help with any further queries of this nature.

Rgds

Jonny

[Resmoroh]

Jonny
QSL
Peter Davies

[Resmoroh]

Hello All,
And while we are on the subject, what were (are?) the technicalities of the annotation:-

"Removed from the Service"

that I have noted in the LG?
Rgds
Peter Davies