Letter | Have a look at what history has to say on Lieutenant Peter Handcock

By Barry Bridges
April 12 2021 - 2:00pm
PAST AND PRESENT: Bathurst's Boer War Memorial.
PAST AND PRESENT: Bathurst's Boer War Memorial.

IT has come to my notice that descendants of Lieutenant Peter Handcock (a Bathurst farrier) and others, including, I understand, the Bathurst sub-branch of the RSL, are still campaigning for posthumous pardons for Handcock and Lieutenant Harry Harbord Morant and placing of their names on Anglo-Boer War memorials.

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