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| serviceyears = 1939-1941; 1943-1944 | rank = | commands = | unit = British Free Corps | battles = World War II *Western Desert Campaign *Battle of Greece | awards = | laterwork = }} Roy Nicolas Courlander, (6 December 1914 – 1979), nicknamed 'Reg', was a New Zealand soldier who became an Unterscharführer〔Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Location 2342). Random House. Kindle Edition〕 in the German Waffen-SS British Free Corps during World War Two. ==Early life== Born out of wedlock, Courlander was adopted by Lithuanian Jewish businessman Leonard Henry Courlander (1878–1970) and Edith Cater (1898-), who sent him to boarding school. When he was 19, his parents divorced and he was sent to live and work on a coconut plantation owned by his father in the New Hebrides in the South Pacific. His mother married Frederick Bohne in 1933 and eventually moved to New Zealand in the 1950s where she died in 1958. His father remarried Gwendoline Elmes and moved to Sydney, Australia. In November 1938, Courlander arrived in New Zealand and found work as a clerk with the Land and Income Tax Department in Wellington. On 10 April 1939 he was arrested and convicted and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for breaking and entering a Napier house of Kathleen Reeston with John Matterson and Geoffrey Keen.〔"RATHER SERIOUS", Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 85, 12 April 1939, Page 10〕〔Arrest of witness, New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23357, 27 May 1939, Page 15〕 Courlander and Keen's sentences were reduced on appeal to 18 months probation from 14 June 1939.〔Appeals succeed, Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 138, 14 June 1939, Page 9〕 Courlander held that his reason for going to the house was for a meal and that this was at Keen's invitation.〔Entering a house, Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 17, 20 July 1939, Page 22〕 Courlander moved to Auckland on 30 September 1939 and married Joan Beryl Marchand there.〔http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5c41/courlander-roy-nicolas〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Courlander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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