In some Australian court martial paperwork from 1917, soldiers were sentenced to 2 yrs I.H.L. and 2 Yrs P.S. for desertion. What do P.S. and I.H.L stand for in this instance?
2006-07-04 05:47:35 · 2 answers · asked by Agatha's Mum 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
IHL does indeed mean imprisonment with hard labour. PS means penal servitude which, according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
is exactly the same. A case of 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. Both punishments were abolished in 1948. It seems that Australian soldiers were lucky because all British squaddies who were guilty of desertion in WW1 were, unfortunately, shot. A gross miscarriage of justice as most of them were suffering from shell-shock.
2006-07-05 06:52:44 · answer #1 · answered by Boris Rott 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
PS - public service (maybe)
IHL - imprisonment with hard labor
2006-07-04 12:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by AlphaOne_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋