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Gould Genealogy - Product's Catalogue (495 words) |
 | The Bushveldt Carbineers were the controversial anti-guerilla unit of the Boer War, composed mostly of Australian officers and troopers, including the infamous Lieutenant 'Breaker' Morant and Lieutenant Handcock. |
| This book on the Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse (which the name of the unit was changed to after the scandals) is the most comprehensively researched study yet written on the BVC and the men who filled its ranks. |
| The Bushveldt Carbineers was led by Australian officers and had a large proportion of Australians within its ranks. |
| Bushveldt Carbineers (3924 words) |
| During this time, the Bushveldt Carbineers were tasked to ensure General Plumer's supply trains were able to run as the Boers continued to attempt to blow up all trains on the Pietersburg-Pretoria Railway Line. |
| In October,seven officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers were involved in a court of inquiry into the shootings of prisoners and, as a consequent, the Bushveldt Carbineers were reformed into the New Pietersburg Light Horse, the name they kept until the disbanding of the Regiment in June 1902 with the end of the war. |
| All officers were brought to trial from the evidence taken from 15 NCO's and soldiers from the Bushveldt Carbineers who were sickened by the actions which they were forced to partake. |
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