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Pte. John King
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1st Btn. Canterbury Regiment
from:New Zealand
(d.19th Aug 1917)
John King served with the Canterbury Regiment 1st Battalion and was one of 28 New Zealand servicemen who were court-martialled and sentenced to death during the First World War. He was executed in August 1917, one of five New Zealand soldiers who were executed during the First World War for mutiny and desertion and pardoned by Parliament in 2000.