Morant , H H (H H)

Bush Veldt Carbineers enrollment/discharge ledger (WO127-style scans on angloboerwar.com's Bush Veldt Carbineers and Pietersburg Light Horse unit page, 'Nominal roll images' tab, Roll 1). Raised Pretoria February 1901; north of Pietersburg / Spelonken. Renamed Pietersburg Light Horse 1 December 1901. Stirling, J. (1907), The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902, as reproduced on the same unit page: Capt P. F. Hunt and Sgt F. Elands killed 6 Aug 1901, and 1 man on the 10th; SSM Evans killed Spelonken 23 Mar 1902. Witton, G. R., Scapegoats of the Empire (1907), online at angloboerwar.com. Deaths only. Disch/Dis./MU/TE/Stock/transfer skipped. Durban recruitment sheets (bvc2) are attestations without fate — not used to add casualties. Forum 'Medals to the Pietersburg Light Horse' names survivors (May, Billingham), not additional dead. Ledger: Morant H.H. Lieut, 'Shot in accordance with sentence 27.2.02'. Harry 'Breaker' Morant. Witton ch. 20: sentenced 26 Feb 1902, shot at dawn 27 Feb 1902, Pretoria Gaol, buried Pretoria cemetery. Court-martial for shooting Boer prisoners (and charged over missionary Heese — acquitted on that count, Witton ch. 19). Unit renamed Pietersburg Light Horse 1 Dec 1901; sentence and roll still name Bushveldt/Bush Veldt Carbineers. Stored as BVC.