The Breaker

Clip 2: Off to war

0 min 53 sec

Taken from the documentary The Breaker (c1973)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG

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Curator’s clip description

In 1899, Australian volunteers set sail for South Africa to fight in the Boer War. ‘Breaker’ Morant was one of them. A soldier sketched Morant and sent it to ‘The Bulletin’.

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