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George Witton
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1874 – 1942
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Who was George Witton?
George Ramsdale Witton was a Lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in South Africa.
He was temporarily sentenced to death for murder after the shooting of nine Boer prisoners. He was subsequently reprieved by Kitchener, although Lieutenants Peter Handcock and Harry "Breaker" Morant who had been court martialed with him were executed by a firing squad on February 27, 1902.
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