• name. The film concerns the 1902 court martial of lieutenants Harry Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton—one of the first war crime prosecutions in...
    30 KB (3,271 words) - 03:36, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Breaker Morant
    Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an English horseman, bush balladist, military officer...
    134 KB (19,595 words) - 11:47, 4 September 2024
  • also featured in the Lord Peter Wimsey series Have His Carcase. Her film roles include the lead in the 1979 film Victims. Morant attended Chipping Campden...
    3 KB (231 words) - 03:09, 6 October 2024
  • Richard Morant (30 October 1945 – 9 November 2011) was an English actor. Morant was born in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire. His father was Shakespearean...
    10 KB (615 words) - 18:00, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Morant Bay rebellion
    The Morant Bay Rebellion (11 October 1865) began with a protest march to the courthouse by hundreds of people led by preacher Paul Bogle in Morant Bay...
    24 KB (3,119 words) - 16:39, 2 September 2024
  • court-martial of Breaker Morant was a war crimes prosecution that brought to trial six officers – Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock, George Witton...
    65 KB (9,041 words) - 21:30, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Handcock
    South Africa. After a court martial, Handcock (along with Harry "Breaker" Morant) was convicted and executed for the murders of nine Boer POWs and three...
    9 KB (716 words) - 19:39, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pardons for Morant, Handcock and Witton
    Following four courts martial in early 1902, Lieutenants Peter Joseph Handcock and Harry "Breaker" Morant, of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC) of the British Army...
    12 KB (1,269 words) - 20:01, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for George William Gordon
    and the policies of Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre. After the start of the Morant Bay rebellion in October 1865, Eyre declared martial law in that area, directed...
    14 KB (1,696 words) - 19:57, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter FitzSimons
    missing publisher (link) FitzSimons, Peter (2020). Breaker Morant : the epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant : drover, horseman, bush poet,...
    28 KB (2,347 words) - 03:52, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica
    as one of Jamaica's seven National Heroes. Morant Bay, its chief town and capital, is the site of the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865, of which Bogle was...
    16 KB (1,846 words) - 09:18, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter von Hagenbach
    retrial or posthumous pardon of convicted Boer War criminals Breaker Morant, Peter Handcock, George Witton, and Henry Picton. Burgundian Wars Greppi, Edoardo...
    7 KB (624 words) - 00:10, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bushveldt Carbineers
    December 1902 The 1980 film Breaker Morant portrays the unit in which Australian Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock were serving when they...
    3 KB (263 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lord Peter Wimsey
    Harriet Vane was played by Harriet Walter and Bunter was played by Richard Morant. The BBC was unable to secure the rights to turn Busman's Honeymoon into...
    39 KB (5,437 words) - 09:22, 17 September 2024
  • title role of Harry 'Breaker' Morant in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented...
    13 KB (698 words) - 02:29, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Witton
    Lieutenant-General Viscount Kitchener, albeit Lieutenants Peter Handcock and Harry "Breaker" Morant, who were court martialled with him, were both executed...
    19 KB (1,911 words) - 00:42, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Breaker Morant (play)
    1978 were: Lieutenant Harry (Breaker) Morant — Terence Donovan Lieutenant George Witton — Gary Day Lieutenant Peter Handcock — John Stanton First Interrogator;...
    7 KB (701 words) - 13:05, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Jamaica
    coming into the mid-19th century, with the most notable event being the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865. The latter half of the 19th century saw economic...
    166 KB (19,905 words) - 00:10, 11 October 2024
  • Everard Morant CM (29 June 1910 – 13 March 1999) was a Canadian photographer who produced iconic images of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Morant was the...
    7 KB (720 words) - 09:11, 3 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for James Francis Thomas
    Major Thomas, he defended Lieutenants Peter Joseph Handcock, George Ramsdale Witton, and Harry "Breaker" Morant, of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC) of...
    7 KB (494 words) - 07:31, 30 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Second Boer War
    protested to Lt. Morant at Fort Edward upon learning of their deaths. Trooper Cochrane alleged that the killer of Rev. Heese was BVC Lt. Peter Handcock. Although...
    199 KB (23,740 words) - 09:52, 10 October 2024
  • suspended for 25 games, Morant returned and hit the game winning buzzer beater in his first game back. After nine games back, Morant got injured and was declared...
    75 KB (7,553 words) - 16:49, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bryan Brown
    both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant (1980), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), F/X (1986), Tai-Pan (1986)...
    28 KB (2,187 words) - 13:42, 18 August 2024
  • Dan Engler Daphanie LaShaunn Interviewers Cathy Kelley Jackie Redmond Pre-show panel Megan Morant Sam Roberts Pre-show correspondent Peter Rosenberg...
    43 KB (4,519 words) - 08:49, 14 October 2024
  • 1980 (53rd) 0 1 Agee 1980 (53rd) 0 1 All Nothing 1980 (53rd) 0 1 Breaker Morant 1980 (53rd) 0 1 Brubaker 1980 (53rd) 0 1 Confidence 1980 (53rd) 0 1 Don't...
    510 KB (315 words) - 20:04, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benedict Wall
    He has also appeared in Outrageous Fortune, Underbelly: Badness, Breaker Morant: The Retrial and Pirates of the Airwaves. Wall co-wrote and directed the...
    11 KB (830 words) - 03:32, 21 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Edward Woodward
    Wicker Man, and in the title role of the 1980 Australian biopic Breaker Morant. From 1985 to 1989, Woodward starred as ex-secret agent and private investigator...
    33 KB (2,575 words) - 21:48, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Peter Grant
    Sir John Peter Grant, GCMG, KCB, (28 November 1807 – 6 January 1893), was a British colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal...
    6 KB (506 words) - 00:54, 26 April 2024
  • A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (category Lord Peter Wimsey)
    stars Edward Petherbridge as Wimsey, Harriet Walter as Vane and Richard Morant as Bunter. The adaptations were first broadcast on BBC Two beginning on...
    7 KB (324 words) - 17:49, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lancefield, Victoria
    Witton of the Bushveldt Carbineers was charged along with Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock of murdering captured Boers during the Anglo-Boer War. Witton...
    11 KB (1,044 words) - 03:30, 27 June 2024