Would Not Wash With Corporals -- Staff quartermaster Sergeant Adams studying his file of documents during an interval in his court martial. Staff quartermaster sergeant Henry Adams of the Royal Army ***** corps was ordered to move from one mess to another. This would have involved him washing with corporals and so he refused. Yesterday he faced a court martial at Bicester, Oxfordshire, on a charge of disobeying the order of his commanding officer. S.Q.M.S. Adams conducting his own defence and endeavoured to prove with the aid of one hundred documents that the order was unlawful. November 7, 1951. (Photo by Paul Popper).