Graves of British Empire troops in Heroes' Acre, Church Street Cemetery, Pretoria, South Africa
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an Australian drover, horseman, poet and soldier whose skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker". The bulk of his published work appeared in The Bulletin magazine. While serving as an Army Lieutenant during the Second Boer War he ordered the execution of several Afrikaner and African prisoners, as well as a German missionary he suspected of carrying messages for the Boers. Morant and fellow Lieutenant Peter Handcock were court-martialed and executed, in part to avoid an international diplomatic incident by appeasing the German government. Morant's and Handcock's supporters believed they were sentenced to death to hide that they were carrying out the orders of Lord Kitchener. Morant and Handcock were buried in one grave at Heroes' Acre.
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Location: Church Street, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Photo credit: © Philip Game / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: african, british, colonial, contingent, empire, graves, heritage, history, imperial, poignant, pretoria, remembrance, tshwane
