Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Son of Alfred Llewellyn Osborne and Emily Osborne, of Leichhardt, New South Wales; husband of Millicent Loris Osborne, of Annandale, New South Wales.

Police Allege
Truck Careered
Up Embankment
George Beck Creber, 18, and Frederick John Peirson, 20, soldiers, appeared, on remand, in the Police Court today on two charges alleging grievous bodily harm, and a third of unlawful killing, at Mitchelton, on July 15. Basil Lawrence Seymour and David Lindsay McAllister, soldiers, are alleged to have been seriously injured, and Stanley Llewellyn Osborne, soldier, killed by the defendants. Mr J. R. Gilbert is appearing for Peirson and Creber. Detective Constable McNicoll, said following reports of the theft of a 15-cwt military truck from Stanley Street about 6 pm on July 15, and. later, of an accident at the corner of Samford and Church Roads, he saw defendants on a troop ship. He had been told one had came aboard covered with blood, and the other with his clothes torn. Both defendants subsequently admitted having gone AWL from the ship during the afternoon, and getting "pretty full." After having stolen the truck, they said, they had decided to return to a camp to see some mates. Both shared the driving. Witness alleged Creber said: "We saw the soldiers on the road. I thought we tried to avoid them, but we must have chased them off the road. Gee, I hope nobody's badly hurt." Peirson said: "We have done something wrong, and it's up to us to fix it." Witness then described skid marks extending 80 feet from Samford Road to an embankment. It was alleged, he said, that the three soldiers who were on foot, hearing the truck, left the road for the embankment. Leaving the road at the same point, the truck careered up the bank on top of them and overturned.