§ 84. Captain Bairdasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air how many cases there have been in the R.A.F. of men sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and over for a military offence; and what were their offences.
§ Mr. Strachey:Three members of the Royal Air Force have been sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for Service offences. The first for shamefully failing to use his utmost exertions to carry out a warlike operation, the second for voluntarily serving with the enemy while a prisoner of war, and the third for inciting to mutiny and insubordination. In the first case the sentence was afterwards commuted by the Air Force Council to 18 months' imprisonment without hard labour.