by James Unkles | Aug 8, 2019 | News
This book that provides an historical assessment of the life of James Francis Thomas, the country lawyer from Tenterfield, New South Wales who was destined to represent three Australians, Lieutenants Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton...
by James Unkles | Feb 27, 2017 | Latest News, News
27th February 2017 marked the 115th anniversary of the execution of two Australian Boer War volunteers, Lieutenants Harry “The Breaker” Morant and Peter Handcock, by a British firing squad. It happened, not on a green veldt at sunrise as director of Breaker Morant,...
by admin | Sep 25, 2014 | Latest News, News
THE trial and ensuing execution of Lieutenants Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant and Peter Handcock in February 1902 in the heat of the Boer War has remained a tender point in both Australian and British military history. Jim Unkles will bring six years of research...
by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | News
In 2013, Jim Unkles participated in the filming of a Foxtel documentary, Breaker Morant – The Re Trial for the History channel. He used the opportunity to interview leading Australian MPs and senior legal counsel to get their views of the case for independent...
by admin | Aug 30, 2014 | News
HARRY “Breaker” Morant, executed more than 112 years ago, has no chance of Australian backing for a pardon. The Federal Labour Government will take no action to pardon Morant and Peter Handcock, who were executed by a British firing squad after being...
by admin | Aug 30, 2014 | News
More than a a century after he was executed, supporters of Harry “Breaker” Morant have upped the ante in their fight to have the legendary soldier pardoned. Morant – executed by firing squad in 1902 for killing prisoners in the Boer War – had...
