NAM.2001-02-24-7

Photocopies of typescript procedures for execution by firing squad, with a report of such an execution carried out in Cairo, 25 Jan 1933. Relating to the court martial and execution for murder of Lt Henry ‘Breaker’ Morant and Lt Peter Hancock, Bushveldt Carbineers, and the imprisonment of Lt George Witton, Bushveldt Carbineers, during the Boer War. From a collection of papers largely compiled by Dr C A R Schulenberg.

Boer War (1899-1902)