People Executed by the British Military - Breaker Morant, Kevin Barry, Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, Irma Grese, Denshawai Incident, Harry Farr, the (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Breaker Morant, Kevin Barry, Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, Irma Grese, Denshawai Incident, Harry Farr, The Forgotten Ten, Duncan Scott-Ford, Carl Hans Lody, Patrick Moran, Bartholomew Teeling, Frank Flood, Peter Goggins, Joseph Stones, Wang Jungzhi, Thomas Traynor, Nicola Bellomo, Thomas Highgate, Karl Eberhard Schongarth, Juana Bormann, Thomas Whelan, Theodore Schurch, Edmond Foley, Patrick Doyle, Meshadi Azizbekov, Peter Handcock, Patrick Maher, Dorothea Binz, Ruth Neudeck, Josef Jakobs, Thomas Bryan, James Daly, Maurice Moore, Yakov Zevin, Mir Hasan Vazirov, Greta Bosel, Elisabeth Marschall, Emma Zimmer, Eric Poole. Excerpt: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (9 December 1864 - 27 February 1902) was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal whose skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker." The bulk of his published work appeared in The Bulletin magazine. During service in the Second Boer War, Morant participated in the summary execution of several Boer (Afrikaner) prisoners and the murder of a German missionary, Daniel Heese, who had been a witness to the shootings. His actions led to his controversial court-martial for murder; his death warrant was personally signed by the British commander in South Africa, Lord Kitchener, although Lord Kitchener subsequently denied the issuance of it. Morant was executed for murder by a contingent of Cameron Highlanders (a regiment of the British Army) in Pretoria gaol (South Africa) on 27 February 1902. In the century since his death, Morant has become a folk hero to some in Australia. His story has been the subject of several books, a stage play, and a major Australian feature film. Accounts of Morant's life before the Boer War vary considerably, and it appears that Morant fabricated a number of these romantic legends....