Lieutenant G G Paterson, MM, MC

George Gibson Paterson as a Cadet officer, in England, 1918, standing at the back, second from the right.

 
How did George Gibson Paterson of Nicholson St, Essendon come to be posted as a deserter?  Rod Martin investigates the circumstances in his new story.

Did this man die at Bullecourt?

Why did George Abbott enlist in 1915, and then desert?  Why did he rejoin the army under another name, George T Connors, and desert again?

Rod Martin asks these questions and more in his new article "Private George Abbott - the man who wasn't there?"

When George Connors was released from a one month prison sentence in August 1916, the MPs picked him up as George Abbott and returned him to training. 

Who was he really?