A leading aircraftman went before a Court Martial at Trentham Military Camp, Upper Hutt. (File photo)
A woman serving in the New Zealand Defence Force is facing a court martial at Trentham Military Camp in Upper Hutt, after being charged with indecent assault and using and offering to supply the drug MDMA. Nicole Leger,who holds the rank of leading aircraftman in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, pleaded not guilty when the court martial began on Monday. The charges all relate to the same day, June 20 last year, when Leger is accused of using and offering to supply the class B drug MDMA Ecstasy to a female comrade, indecently assaulting her, or alternatively assaulting her.
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Shirley Wetiford was among four Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps nurses to be deployed to Malaya in 1961.
Shirley Wetiford looks lovingly at the military service medals on her blazer. She had the coat out ready for the annual RSA Poppy Appeal on Friday, April 16, where she was with other returned service members stationed outside a supermarket in Cambridge. The theme for this year’s appeal was “Service and Sacrifice” and “saluting women and the military”. Lance Corporal Shirley Churcher [her maiden name], Service No 38735, served in the Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps from 1959 to 1962, including 12 months in the Malayan Emergency in 1961.