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Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian war drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, who co-wrote the screenplay based on Kenneth G. Ross's 1978 play of the same name. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The film concerns the 1902 court martial of lieutenants Harry Morant , Peter Handcock and George Witton —one of the first war crime prosecutions in British ...
Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an English horseman, bush balladist, military officer, and war criminal who was convicted and executed for murdering nine prisoners-of-war (POWs) and three captured civilians in three separate incidents during the Second Boer War.
The 1902 court-martial of Breaker Morant was a war crimes prosecution that brought to trial six officers – Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock, George Witton, Henry Picton, Captain Alfred Taylor and Major Robert Lenehan – of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC), an irregular regiment of mounted rifles during the Second Boer War.
Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant (1900). Peter Joseph Handcock (1900). Lieutenant G.R. Witton, Bushveldt Carbineers (1901). Pardons for Morant, Handcock and Witton, three Australian soldiers, were sought from their court-martial convictions for the murder of Boer prisoners-of-war and local civilians during the Second Boer War.
In the award-winning 1980 film Breaker Morant, Captain Percy Frederick Hunt, who was renamed Simon Hunt, was played by Anglo-Australian actor Terence Donovan. The character was depicted as much older than the real Hunt and was performed with an Australian rather than an English accent.
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The Breaker: a novel, with a selection of the verse of Harry (the Breaker) Morant / Kit Denton (1980, revised edition ISBN 0-207-14268-8) Gallipoli illustrated / compiled and written by Kit Denton (1981, ISBN 0-7270-1462-5) Closed File: The True Story Behind the Execution of Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock (1983, ISBN 0-7270-1739-X)