NEW material calling for a posthumous pardon for three Australian soldiers court-martialled in controversial circumstances more than 100 years ago during the Boer War will be presented to Federal Parliament today. Lieutenants Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock and George Ramsdale Witton were convicted of murdering Boer prisoners, with Morant and Handcock executed for war crimes in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1902, despite a plea for court mercy. Witton was sentenced to life but was released two years later. But a petition based on an examination of the case by Navy Commander James Unkles, a Victorian lawyer with 30 years...