george witton造句

• The firing squad consisted of BVC Lt . George Witton, Sgt.
• George Witton was transported to naval detention quarters England and then to Lewes prison in Sussex.
• George Witton was convicted of the same charge, but his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
• Another early prisoner at Lewes was George Witton, a Lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in South Africa.
• According to his co-defendant, Lt . George Witton, Morant served in the South Australian Second Contingent for nine months, during which time he was promoted to the rank of sergeant.
• In one analysis of the film, D . L . Kershen comments : " " Breaker Morant " tells the story of the court-martial of Harry Morant, Peter Handcock, and George Witton in South Africa in 1902.
• The first is the report of the trial printed in " The Times " in April 1902; the second is George Witton's account of the events of 1901 02, contained in his book " Scapegoats of the Empire ".
• The deposition of former BVC Corporal Albert van der Westerhuizen, the memoirs of George Witton, and the Transvaal War Museum archives reveal that, after the prisoners were taken, they were marched to a hillside nearby and forced to dig their own mass grave.
• On hearing of the arrests, Kitchener's Chief of Police, Provost Marshall Robert Poore, remarked in his diary, " . . . if they had wanted to shoot Boers they should not have taken them prisoner first "  a view later ruefully echoed in his book by George Witton.
• The execution by the British army of two Australian lieutenants ( Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock ) of the Bushveldt Carbineers for war crimes in 1902 and the imprisonment of a third, George Witton, was initially uncontroversial, but after the war prompted an empire-wide movement to release Witton which drew on anti-war radicalism.
• Bushveldt Carbineers Lt . George Witton later wrote of Captain Taylor, " As far as the natives were concerned, he had a free hand and the power of life and death; he was known and feared by them from the Zambezi to the Spelonken, and was called by them " Bulala " which means to kill, to slay.