Details of this event are provided on a dedicated webpage this website under the top menu heading ‘Duntroon Hate’.
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The stabbing event was effectively a form of proactive self-defence against gangs of senior cadets targeting junior cadets at RMC Duntroon following a series of bastardisation incidents. Junior SCT Julian KNIGHT had come under particular targeting and unprovoked physical assaults by senior cadets of RMC (mostly from his own Kokoda Company as well as from Kapyong Company and from ADFA senior cadets. Those physical assaults had take place (Jan-May 1987) in Julian’s barracks (typically at night into the wee hours and so outside the witness of RMC Officer Command, though well-known and blind-eyed by same RMC Command) , within his private quarters (single accommodation room), on RMC campus, and specifically the RMC cadets’ preferred nearby nightclub the ‘Private Bin’ in Civic.
Knight had started seriously fearing for his own personal safety, so whilst on approved weekend leave in Canberra, he then bought a switchblade knife without anyone knowing. It was for his own personal self-defence in a last resort emergency against the senior cadet gang attacks.
- Punched real hard in the stomach fin the first induction week during a ridiculous rituralised ‘Leaps and Jumps’ kit changing pantomime by senior cadets of juniors (Officers of campus and so blind-eyed at the time of course)
- Kokoda senior cadet gang shaving half his moustache off whilst forcibly held down on the floor in his own room)
- Julian’s wrist fractured by a gang of Kapyong senior cadets
- Julian’s nose backed three times
- A senior Kokoda staff cadet menacingly pressing a bayonet against Julian’s chest in Julian’s private quarters
- It goes on…
Recall that SCT Julian KNIGHT had days prior received a broken nose coward punch from senior cadet SCT Philip Reed (the then cadet head of Kokoda Company leading his obedient senior cadet gang of RMC ‘Inquisition’ against juniors cadets like Knight that he/they took a personal dislike to.
Duntroon has always been an asylum beyond it being fit for Army officer training in any moral code.
