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From the East Suffolk Gazette

29/10/1918

OFFICER’S DOWNFALL William John Powley, a native of Beccles, of 5 Fairclose charged with

stealing £200 from money received from an exhibition of coloured battle photographs at the Mappin

Art Gallery, Sheffield of which he was in charge, Formerly a Lieutenant in the army. He was

educated at Beccles Council School; he joined the Cadets, of which he was a sergeant in 1912, and

Sergeant Major in 1913-14. He joined as a Private in 1915. He won the DCM while in the ranks and

the MC for his work and personal bravery. He was twice wounded and also gassed. He had been

court martialled and dismissed from the army.. He was 21. He was given 6 months imprisonment.

naughty boy!