WW1 RAF Officer's Court Martial

[kiterunner]

My grandfather's first cousin Lionel Evelyn Graham Judge served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Loyal North Lancs Regiment and received the Military Cross, citation in the London Gazette 25 Apr 1918: 2nd Lt Lionel Evelyn Graham Judge, N Lan R. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his platoon of the first wave until he had lost nearly all his men, owing to heavy enfilade machine-gun fire. Collecting the remainder, he pushed forward and occupied a farm, which he held for five hours until, exhausted by loss of blood from a wound, he had to be taken away.

He then transferred to the RAF and his service record is on FMP:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBM/AIR76/268/0/0074&parentid=GBM/AIR76/48536
On the second image, after the Military Cross listing, it says Authority C3548/1 Tried by GCM found "Guilty" date 13.8.19.

Can anyone find any details of his General Court Martial, please? I was quite surprised to find it in his records.

Of course his surname is the worst possible for searching for records of trials!

[JessBow]

not what you are looking for (and you have prob already seen this )

www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/ID/?7000248964

[Merry]

It should be here:

The National Archives:

General Courts Martial, Home
Reference: AIR 21/3
Description: General Courts Martial, Home
Date: 1918 June 13-1960 Dec. 20

but these records are not yet indexed by name.

[Merry]

There's a separate index ref for General Courts Martial, Abroad (AIR 21/2).

[Merry]

Did you find anything regarding "18/11/19 - The notification in the Gazette of 28/10/19 concerning 2nd Lieut LEG Judge is cancelled" (on the first page you linked to)?

Here it is......

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31620/page/13140

[Merry]

Unsure what this one means?

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31686/supplement/15563

[kiterunner]

Thanks for those, Merry. The 28/10/19 one would have been giving him "unemployed" status, and the 12/12/19 one says he was "restored to the establishment", but all I can find by Googling that phrase is other London Gazette entries! Maybe someone else on here knows what it means?

[kiterunner]

not what you are looking for (and you have prob already seen this )

www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/ID/?7000248964


Thanks for that, Jess. I don't think I'd seen it before.

[Uncle John]

An "established" civil servant is someone with pension rights. Very junior people generally started off "unestablished" and then progressed to "established". That was the situation when I joined the Post Office in 1962. As a junior manager I was "established" from the outset.

[kiterunner]

Thanks, UJ.

[kiterunner]

He doesn't seem to be in the court martial records on Fold3 (yet).