Handcock, Peter Joseph (Lieutenant, Bushveldt Carbineers)

Place Africa: South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria
Accession Number 3DRL/3834
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 wallet: 1 cm
Object type Letter
Maker Handcock, Peter Joseph
Place made South Africa
Date made 1902
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM315 419/062/007
Conflict South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Copyright

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Description

Collection relating to the Boer War service of Lieutenant Peter Joseph Handcock. Collection consists of a letter written by Handcock to his sister prior to his execution with Lieutenant Harry "Breaker" Morant on 27 February 1902. Also included in the collection is a letter to Handcock's sister from J H Morrow, warder at Pretoria gaol after Handcock's execution.