Small Paperback, Good Condition, 1980, 176 pages, ISBN 0 7254 0537 6

Breaker Morant – F.M. Cutlack

A horseman who made history

F.M Cutlack knew Harry Breaker Morant personally, having ridden with him in South Australia in 1898-9. Cutlack contributed to the Official History of Australians in the War 1914-18. Called ‘the only factual record of any worth about these events’ Breaker Morant was the basis of a film starring Edward Woodward.

Australian horse-breaker and balladist Harry Morant was executed in South Africa in 1902 after service in the Boer War. Breaker Morant shows that Morant’s shooting of Boer prisoners was probably the result of a command inciting his patrol to vengeance. Lord Kitchener, who signed Morant’s death warrant, was possibly appeasing the German Emperor, since a German missionary also died… but Morant himself had advised this missionary to defend himself from the dangerous Boers. Undoubtedly the brave Morant suffered questionable British justice.