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Animal wrote:

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There was a movie made about that. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/

Nice to see you're still alive.;-)
Although I’ve seen the film advertised, I haven’t watch it.
I don't know if you've read ‘The Australians at the Boer War, R. L. Wallace, 1976.’
The chapter on the Court-martial makes interesting reading, here’s the opening:
“Towards the end of March 1902 the Australian Press began to publish strange reports in which it was stated that two Australian officers, Lieutenants Harry Harbord Morant and Peter Joseph Handcock had been sentenced by a general court-martial and shot. Gradually the outline of events filtered through, revealing what until then had remained concealed by military censorship.

The officers were executed 1n Pretoria on 27 February 1902 for the shooting of Boer prisoners. A third Australian, Lieutenant George Ramsdale Witton, received a sentence of life imprisonment. The Australian Government and the wife of one of the executed men were allowed to get the first news of the executions from the morning newspapers weeks after they had taken place. Moreover this happened without the slightest indication beforehand that either the men or their corps were in any kind of trouble, as indeed they had been during the past seven months. Soon after learning of his fate Witton arranged for two telegrams to be sent on his behalf; one to the Australian Government representative in Cape Town, and the other to a relative in Victoria. Notwithstanding official assurances neither telegram arrived.”

In my opinion (for what that’s worth) the whole bloody affair was hypocritical. The only good thing to come out of it was the Australian government gaining more control over what happened to its military.

wfrad wrote:

Animal wrote:

wfrad wrote:[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

There was a movie made about that. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/

Nice to see you're still alive.;-)
Although I’ve seen the film advertised, I haven’t watch it.
I don't know if you've read ‘The Australians at the Boer War, R. L. Wallace, 1976.’
The chapter on the Court-martial makes interesting reading, here’s the opening:
“Towards the end of March 1902 the Australian Press began to publish strange reports in which it was stated that two Australian officers, Lieutenants Harry Harbord Morant and Peter Joseph Handcock had been sentenced by a general court-martial and shot. Gradually the outline of events filtered through, revealing what until then had remained concealed by military censorship.

The officers were executed 1n Pretoria on 27 February 1902 for the shooting of Boer prisoners. A third Australian, Lieutenant George Ramsdale Witton, received a sentence of life imprisonment. The Australian Government and the wife of one of the executed men were allowed to get the first news of the executions from the morning newspapers weeks after they had taken place. Moreover this happened without the slightest indication beforehand that either the men or their corps were in any kind of trouble, as indeed they had been during the past seven months. Soon after learning of his fate Witton arranged for two telegrams to be sent on his behalf; one to the Australian Government representative in Cape Town, and the other to a relative in Victoria. Notwithstanding official assurances neither telegram arrived.”

In my opinion (for what that’s worth) the whole bloody affair was hypocritical. The only good thing to come out of it was the Australian government gaining more control over what happened to its military.

I managed to find that movie on Youtube in case you're interested.

Thanks Animal, I've copied the link and have a look later.
I'm a little surprised that the full movie was available on YouTube, especially the way things are regarding copyright.