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	Gould Genealogy - Product's Catalogue
		The Bushveldt Carbineers were the controversial anti-guerilla unit of the Boer War, composed mostly of Australian officers and troopers, including the infamous Lieutenant 'Breaker' Morant and Lieutenant Handcock.
		This book on the Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse (which the name of the unit was changed to after the scandals) is the most comprehensively researched study yet written on the BVC and the men who filled its ranks.
		The Bushveldt Carbineers was led by Australian officers and had a large proportion of Australians within its ranks.
	www.gould.com.au /?pageid=ProductCatalog&template=PRODUCTCATALOG&prodid=2163 (495 words)

	Bushveldt Carbineers
		During this time, the Bushveldt Carbineers were tasked to ensure General Plumer's supply trains were able to run as the Boers continued to attempt to blow up all trains on the Pietersburg-Pretoria Railway Line.
		In October,seven officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers were involved in a court of inquiry into the shootings of prisoners and, as a consequent, the Bushveldt Carbineers were reformed into the New Pietersburg Light Horse, the name they kept until the disbanding of the Regiment in June 1902 with the end of the war.
		All officers were brought to trial from the evidence taken from 15 NCO's and soldiers from the Bushveldt Carbineers who were sickened by the actions which they were forced to partake.
	www.lighthorse.org.au /military/bushveldt.htm (3924 words)

	ObscuroRant: Shoot Straight Ya Bastards!
		An irregular unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers, was established to combat the Boers on their own terms.
		The Carbineers met with great success, becoming greatly feared by the Boers, but on August 5, 1901 the commander of the Carbineers, Capt. Percy Hunt, was wounded in an ambush, captured, mutilated and killed.
		Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant took over command of the Bushveldt Carbineers; grieving for his dead friend (Morant was in fact engaged to Hunt's sister) he oversaw the execution of some 12 Boer prisoners over the next six weeks.
	www.obscurorama.com /2004/08/shoot-straight-ya-bastards.html (1051 words)

	Scapegoats of the Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scapegoats of the Empire is the title of a book by an Australian Second Boer War soldier Lieutenant George Witton.
		Originally published in 1907, it is the only surviving eyewitness account of the events of the famous Breaker Morant case, in which members of a British irregular unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers were arrested and court-martialed by the British Army for allegedly murdering Boer prisoners of war.
		Three Australian soldiers, Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Peter Handcock and Witton himself were sentenced to death; Morant and Handcock were subsequently shot by firing squad but Witton's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was later pardoned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scapegoats_of_the_Empire (261 words)

	Echo Education Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lieutenant Morant, of the Bushveldt Carbineers, who is said to have been shot for being concerned in the shooting of Boer prisoners near Komati Poort, was well known here, where he resided for some time.
		Regarding the execution in Pretoria in February last of Lieutenant Morant and Veterinary Lieutenant Handcock of the Bushveldt Carbineers, on a charge of shooting unarmed Boers, it is evident that a good deal of secrecy was observed in dealing with the accused officers.
		The "Daily Express" says that Lieutenant Witton, of the Bushveldt Carbineers, who was sentenced to imprisonment for life on a charge of shooting Boer prisoners, and who arrived at Queenstown by the steamer Canada, told passengers on the steamer that the Boers had murdered several wounded officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers.
	www.echoed.com.au /chronicle/1902/marapr/world.htm (8133 words)

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		The camp and headquarters of the Carbineers formed part of the Pietersburg garrison, which was made up of the 2nd Wiltshire Regiment, 2nd Gordon Highlanders, a section of the Royal Field Artillery, and a detachment of the Royal Garrison Artillery, with a 5-in.
		The officer who had command of the detachment of Carbineers assisting Captain Taylor was, as it appeared, altogether unfit to command such a body of men, and allowed his detachment to drift into a state of insubordination verging on mutiny.
		He subsequently joined the Bushveldt Carbineers, and was killed within a few miles of his own home, where he was taken and buried.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks04/0400611.txt (22314 words)

	Memorial News and Media Releases [Australian War Memorial]
		Morant, a drover and balladist, and Handcock, a flsmith, were lieutenants in the Bushveldt Carbineers, a regiment raised in South Africa early in 1901 to garrison the northern Transvaal, round up small bands of armed Boers, and bring in Boer families who wanted to sign an oath of allegiance to the British empire.
		The task proved too hard for the Carbineers, supervision over them was negligible, and temptations were many.
		The Bushveldt Carbineers affair is placed in the context of Australia's experience of the South African War in a forthcoming history of Australians and the conflict that has been commissioned by the Australian War Memorial and due for publication in November 2002.
	www.awm.gov.au /news/morant.htm (517 words)

	Breaker Morant - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In a desert outpost in South Africa, three dashing officers of the Australian Bushveldt Carbineers are accused of murdering prisoners and missionaries, then tried and convicted of war crimes they insisted were carried out under orders from British high commander Lord Kitchener himself.
		The Australians are depicted as men caught up in the imperial politics of the war and are made scapegoats for the errors of British officers, although the facts do point a finger at the accused as guilty.
		Captured men were shot in acts of impulsive cruelty, and their captors indulged in a degree of personal revenge for the barbarous mutilation of the body of the Carbineers' wounded CO.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /movies/breakermorant.htm (415 words)

	The Great American Weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These Bushveldt Carbineers essentially fought commando style, spending weeks living rough in the bush on horseback, guerilla fighting.
		This policy, the carbineers claimed and much evidence supports, came to directly from their English superiors.
		Witton made the case that the seven Bushveldt Carbineers--four English and three Australian--were made to pay for the sins of an entire empire.
	www.honan.net /2004/05/lynndie-england-meet-breaker-morant.php (628 words)

	'The Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse', by Bill Woolmore - 9 March 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse
		Bill Woolmore selected an appropriate time to release this new research on 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock and their maligned unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC).
		In fairness, The Bushveldt Carbineers is a "unit history" of the ill-fated BVC and the reformed PLH.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2002mar9_books2.html (988 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| 1901 Census \| Events
		On the other side, British forces were also accused of committing atrocities, the most famous of all being the Breaker Morant case, the subject of an Australian film in 1980.
		Morant was an officer serving with an irregular cavalry unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers.
		In August 1901, he ordered the shooting of a number of Boer prisoners of war in the northern Transvaal and, although he claimed that he was obeying orders, was later executed.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/census/events/britain7.htm (676 words)

	'Breaker' Morant
		Thomas has no legitimate witnesses because the men in Morant's squad, the Bushveldt Carbineers, that would have a good word for the Lieutenants are off fighting in India.
		The Bushveldt Carbineers were not a traditional British troupe that wore bright red uniforms and alerted the enemy to their presence by beating the drums.
		The Carbineers were traveling on horseback and fighting battles in open hillside territory.
	metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/breakermorant.html (2860 words)

	The Boers worst enemies; Aussies
		One such unit, working in the rough country north of Pietersburg, called the Spelonken, was the Bushveldt Carbineers.
		On a patrol, Morant stopped and questioned a Dr. Heese, a German missionary who later reported that in one of the wagons with the patrol were the corpses of eight Boers.
		Six officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers, including Morant, were arrested by the British and charged with looting, manslaughter and the murder of the missionary.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/other/boers.htm (4145 words)

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		Several weeks after joining the unit, 17 Carbineers, including Morant, under the command of Captain Hunt, attacked a Boer farmhouse, only to discover there were far more Boers hiding in the house than expected.
		Hunt was badly wounded and the Boers extracted their revenge, savagely mutilating him whilst he was still alive and then stripping his dead body of his uniform.
		An Albany man, Robert Cochrane, a JP and a fellow Bushveldt Carbineer, loathed Morant and was instrumental in bringing the matter to the attention of a rather flamboyant South Australian intelligence officer, Captain Frederick De Bertodano, who had caused the army considerable embarrassment over several matters of fraud and embezzlement.
	www.theatre.asn.au /comment/reply/1834 (1232 words)

	Villains or victims? [Wartime: Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial]
		Harry Morant, a drover and balladist, and Peter Handcock, a flsmith, were lieutenants in the Bushveldt Carbineers, a regiment raised in South Africa early in 1901 to garrison the northern Transvaal, round up small bands of armed Boers, and bring in Boer families willing to sign an oath of allegiance to the British empire.
		Left:A group portrait of the officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers.
		Morant, Handcock and some other Bushveldt Carbineers officers were turned in by 15 of their own troopers after a spree of killings in which more than a dozen unarmed men died, generally Boers who wanted to end nominal status as combatants and sign an oath of allegiance to the British empire.
	www.awm.gov.au /wartime/18/article.asp (1671 words)

	iBrett.com - For Basement Dwelling, Pop Culture Fans Everywhere: Now with 99% more girlfriend! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the Carbineers I was responsible for the capture of Boer Commando Leader Kelly.
		One of the guests refers to him as a "Tennyson of the Transvaal, a Byron of the Bushveldt Carbineers." They discover he was one of the best horse breakers in Australia which prompts Bolton to refer to him as "quite a renaissance figure".
		Donald Robertson, a former soldier with the Bushveldt Carbineers, is the first witness called by the prosecution.
	www.ibrett.com /pnews.php?page=breaker (7200 words)

	Zoutnet DETAILS
		“As a lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers stationed in the Soutpansberg region in the far north of South Africa, Morant carried Lord Kitchener’s scorched-earth policy into the realm of serial murder,” Dr Wilcox said.
		Wilcox wrote that Morant joined other Carbineer officers in killing a Boer prisoner of war, more than a dozen unarmed local men, a German missionary, Daniel Heese, and his African servant, and even one of their own soldiers whom they feared would reveal what was going on.
		Leach was quoted in the Australian press where he said that the memorial, built entirely from donations from people of the Soutpansberg region, was to bring honour and remembrance to innocent civilians, both known and unknown, fl and white, who had perished in the area during the Boer War.
	www.zoutnet.co.za /news/details.asp?StoNum=4277 (505 words)

	Miscellaneous Ramsdale Entries: Australia
		On his return to Africa in April 1901, Lieutenant Morant enlisted with the newly formed Bushveldt Carbineers, a mainly Australian force raised in South Africa, to fight the Boers in Northern Transvaal on their own terms.
		On August 5, 1901, Capt. Hunt and 17 Carbineers rushed a Boer farmhouse and were surprised to find four times as many Boers as expected.
		Witton went to prison on the Isle of Wight, and after serving nearly three years, his life sentence was overturned by the British House of Commons on August 11, 1905.
	www.ramsdale.org /miscellaoz.htm (1150 words)

	Ethics & International Politics
		However, those Boers fighting in the northern Transvaal, in commando groups, are outlaws, renegades, often without any recognized form of control, addicted to the wrecking of trains, the looting of farms.
		Now when the rules and customs of war are departed from by one side, one must expect the same sort of behavior from the other.
		Accordingly, officers of the Carbineers should be, and up until now have been, given the widest possible discretion in their treatment of the enemy.
	faculty.pepperdine.edu /rwilliam/posc549/Breaker.htm (486 words)

	Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers
		Drawing on a wide selection of sources, this volume seeks to investigate the controversies surrounding the execution of 'Breaker' Morant and his two Australian compatriots.
		It explores not only the murders associated with Morant, but looks at the context in which the Bushveldt Carbineers were recruited and operated.
		But luckily they were so afraid of Taylor and the Carbineers that they became more cautious than we had hoped for.
	www.vanriebeecksociety.co.za /docs/morant.htm (1094 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal - EDITOR'S LETTER-BOX
		Subsequently he was commissioned into the Transvaal Constabulary, and on 1 April 1901 joined the Bushveldt Carbineers in the rank of Lieutenant.
		The second member of the accused party was Lieutenant Peter Handcock, an outback Australian who was a Farrier Sergeant in the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, a railway policeman in Pretoria and, finally, a veterinary Lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers.
		One of the victims of the Bushveldt Carbineers was Edoud Boukan, a Hollander who had settled in the Transvaal.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol054ed.html (1328 words)

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		- commissioned in the Bushveldt Carbineers on 1 April 1901.
		- assigned to the Bushveldt Carbineers on 13 July 1901.
		January 1902 - Bushveldt Carbineers Regiment is disbanded.
	www.usma.edu /Committees/Honor/hrp/first/1-7b.htm (1243 words)

	The LLama Butchers: More Gratuitous Llama Netflix Posting
		It tells the stories of three members of Australia's Bushveldt Carbineers, an irregular commando unit that specialized in guerilla tactics, who were court-marshalled by the British during the Boer War for allegedly committing atrocities against the Boers, including shooting prisoners.
		The argument at the trial wasn't so much over whether the Carbineers had taken the actions claimed - they more or less admitted it - but whether they were acting under orders.
		The cinematography is, at times, breathtaking (for example, the visual pairing of the two firing squads, the Bushveldt Carbineers and the Cameron Highlanders, has always touched me), the courtroom drama is first rate and there are a couple of very good battle scenes as well.
	llamabutchers.mu.nu /archives/119492.php (774 words)

	South Australians at War - THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
		One volunteer who joined the Second South Australian Contingent in 1900, Harry 'Breaker' Morant, is of particular interest.
		In April 1901 he was appointed a lieutenant in an irregular regiment, the Bushveldt Carbineers.
		Craig Wilcox, in his article Ned Kelly in Khaki describes the events that led to the court martial and execution of Morant and fellow Australian, Peter Handcock, by a British Army firing squad, for the murder of unarmed Boers.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /saatwar/boerwar.htm (742 words)

	Breaker Morant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the film, Harry Morant, known as Breaker Morant, because he broke horses, is arrested for the killing of prisoners during his servitude with the Bushveldt Carbineers.
		Handcock’s jokes and limericks are well placed and delivered in such a way that the viewer is almost forced to laugh.
		At one point in the film, the translator for the Bushveldt Carbineers acts as a witness during the trial, where he lies blatantly.
	www.largesock.com /writing/wbreaker.html (524 words)

	Breaker Morant; hero or villain? Probably both.
		He returned to South Africa and accepted a commission as a Lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC).
		It was an irregular force specially formed to counter the Boer commando tactics of hit and run, live off the land and strike when least expected.
		Seven Carbineers, including Lieutenants Morant, thirty years old Peter Joseph Handcock and twenty-five years old George Ramsdale Witton, were charged with shooting Boer prisoners and the German missionary.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-vc/breaker_morant.htm (2246 words)

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