1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles Bushveldt Carbineers
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Second Boer War
Peter Joseph Handcock (17 February 1868 – 27 February 1902) was an 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, Handcock (along with Harry "Breaker" Morant) was convicted and executed for the murders of nine Boer POWs and three other civilians.[1]
His execution, "which had been carried out without the knowledge and consent of the Australian government",[2] was and remains a controversial issue in Australia.
^The murders are often prochronistically denoted "war crimes"; a concept that did not exist at the time.
Peter Joseph Handcock (17 February 1868 – 27 February 1902) was an Australian-born Veterinary Lieutenant and convicted war criminal who served in the...
Morant was found guilty and sentenced to death. Morant and Lieutenant PeterHandcock were then court-martialled for the murder of the Reverend Carl August...
or posthumous pardon of convicted Boer War criminals Breaker Morant, PeterHandcock, George Witton, and Henry Picton. Burgundian Wars Greppi, Edoardo (September...
reprieved by Lieutenant-General Viscount Kitchener, albeit Lieutenants PeterHandcock and Harry "Breaker" Morant, who were court martialled with him, were...
and Dale. 2. The shooting of BVC Trooper B.J. van Buuren by BVC Lt. PeterHandcock on 4 July 1901. Trooper van Buuren, an Afrikaner, had "disapproved"...
murder and acquitted, there is evidence that one of these – Lieutenant PeterHandcock – afterwards confessed to the killing. Heese was born on 24 February...
film 1980 Palm Beach Paul Kite Feature film 1980 Breaker Morant Lt. PeterHandcock Feature film AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1980 Stir...
the unit in which Australian Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant and PeterHandcock were serving when they were court martialed. They were executed on 27...
and Dale. 2. The shooting of BVC Trooper B.J. van Buuren by BVC Lt. PeterHandcock on 4 July 1901. van Buuren, an Afrikaner, had "disapproved" of the killings...
antitrust Sherman Act. February 27 – Australian officers Breaker Morant and PeterHandcock are executed for the murder of Boer prisoners of war near Louis Trichardt...
executed in the same way. British soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and PeterHandcock were executed by a British firing squad in the South African Republic...
mercenaries during the Angolan Civil War, executed by firing squad PeterHandcock (1868–1902), convicted and executed for murdering civilians during the...
the Second Boer War, the British Army court-martialed Breaker Morant, PeterHandcock, Alfred Taylor, and several other officers for multiple murders of POWs...
October 1901 Executed Executed by firing squad on 27 February 1902. PeterHandcock New South Wales War crimes 23 October 1901 Executed Executed by firing...
1902 – Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and PeterHandcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes. 1916 –...
(1857) Hong Tianguifu (1864) William Walker (1860) Henry Wirz (1865) PeterHandcock (1902) Harry "Breaker" Morant (1902) Gideon Scheepers (1902) Mehmed...
made infamous by the trial and execution of Harry 'Breaker' Morant and PeterHandcock, who were serving members of the unit at the time of their arrest and...
film concerning the 1902 court martial of lieutenants Harry Morant, PeterHandcock and George Witton—one of the first war crime prosecutions in British...
which gained notoriety as the unit in which Harry "Breaker" Morant and PeterHandcock served in before their court martial and execution for war crimes. With...
Lieutenants Harry Morant, PeterHandcock, and George Witton were each found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Morant and Handcock were executed, while...
halfback Arthur Summons, Harry 'Bomber' Wells, Kel O'Shea, Noel Kelly and Peter Dimond. The 1963 grand final was immortalised in a photograph which became...
which gained notoriety as the unit in which Harry "Breaker" Morant and PeterHandcock served in before their - to this day controversial and contested legitimate...
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