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"Witton wrote that he was by then at Pretoria railway station and heard the volley of shots that killed his comrades. However, Robert Poore, who attended the execution, wrote in his diary that he put Witton and Lieutenant Picton on the train that left at 05:30 hours. Thus, Witton would have been several miles on the way to Cape Town when the execution occurred."
The last sentence suggests that Witton's account that he heard the killing shots is inaccurate and possibly embellished. The evidence provided is insufficient to justify this suggestion. Anecdotally, I know that the .303 can be heard from several miles away. The .303 is a large, supersonic round and can be heard from several miles away in forested terrain. For further information, search hunting forums regarding audible range of various gunshots. The reasonably flat geography of Pretoria would allow multiple .303 gunshots to be heard from "several miles" away.
I suggest that someone with the authority to do so rewords the sentence to remove the implication that Witton was embellishing his account. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.101.171.156 (talk) 02:37, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
This photograph is not properly licensed. If no author is known, then we can hardly use a 70 year post-mortem licence. Unless someone knows who took it or an early publication which means it is out of copyright, it will need to be deleted. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 11:57, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
There is no encyclopaedic value in reproducing the oath Morant took when he initially enlisted for the war. In the first case, the provisions can be easily summarised, and in the second case, he was commissioned before he committed any war crimes we are aware of, and would have taken an officer's oath at that time. It would be similar, but not exactly the same, and of course, as a British Army commission would not have mentioned anything about Australia. I will shortly summarise it and delete the full text. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:09, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm removing the Ron Soodalter/History Net citations and material, per the discussion here. It is not of sufficient quality for a GA, which is where this is going in the first instance. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:40, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
There seems to be a lot of stuff in this article that is just bloat. An entire section that makes no mention of the primary subject of this article should probably be deleted. Betterkeks (talk) 00:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)