-
received a
commission as a
lieutenant with an
irregular regiment – the
Bushveldt Carbineers. He was
arrested and court-martialled for
committing murder...
- The
Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC) were a short-lived,
irregular mounted infantry regiment,
raised in
South Africa during the
Second Boer War. The 320-strong...
- Lord
Kitchener (Alan C****ell). He is told that
three officers of the
Bushveldt Carbineers—lieutenants
Harry Morant (Edward Woodward),
Peter Hand****...
-
Ramsdale Witton (28 June 1874 – 14
August 1942) was a
lieutenant in the
Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in
South Africa. He was
sentenced to death...
-
Henry Picton,
Captain Alfred Taylor and
Major Robert Lenehan – of the
Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC), an
irregular regiment of
mounted rifles during the Second...
- Australian-born
Veterinary Lieutenant and
convicted war
criminal who
served in the
Bushveldt Carbineers during the Boer War in
South Africa.
After a
court martial...
- Department,
Taylor was
handpicked by Lord
Kitchener as
liaison to the
Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC) at Fort
Edward in the
Northern Transvaal.
South African...
- time, and
eventually Hunt
invited Morant to join the
recently formed,
Bushveldt Carbineers in
April 1901. At the end of July 1901, the
garrison at Fort...
-
formally become the
British Army's
first sniper unit. Additionally, the
Bushveldt Carbineers,
formed in 1901, can be seen as an
early unconventional warfare...
- of
Breaker Morant is dead and buried : a
South African version of the
Bushveldt Carbineers in the Zoutpansberg : May 1901–April 1902.
Louis Trichardt...
