in March 1931, aged 56 years, and was buried at the Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane. In September 1932, he married Carolen Ellen Stranger. He did not have any children, although he and Mary by 1928 sought to adopt an orphan, only to be denied as Witton was 'a disgraced soldier'. He had a heart attack while cranking his car engine, and died in hospital on 14 August 1942, at the age of 68. He was buried with his first wife Mary in Brisbane's Lutwyche Cemetery which, coincidentally, is located on the corner of Gympie and Kitchener Roads. His will indicated he was a retired estate agent, late of 41 Maling Road, Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria, the executor being his nephew. 2009 petitions for review of court martial In 2009, an Australian lawyer and naval reservist, Commander Jim Unkles, submitted personal petitions, requesting a review of the convictions for Morant, Handcock and Witton, to The Crown, in the form of: Queen Elizabeth II personally the Australian government, in the form of the Australian House of Representatives Petitions Committee The petitions committee considered Unkles' petition on 15 March 2010. He appeared before it, along with others including historian Craig Wilcox. Committee member Alex Hawke MP stated: "there is in my view serious and compelling evidence that some form of redress should be given, all these years later, to those men executed by the British". The then Attorney-General of Australia, Robert McLelland referred the petition to the UK government. On behalf of the Crown, Unkles' petition was rejected by UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox, in November 2010. Footnotes References The Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse by William (Bill) Woolmore (2002, Slouch Hat Publications Australia) Copeland, H., "A Tragic memory of the Boer War", The Argus Week-end Magazine, (Saturday, 11 June 1938), p.6. Denton, Kit. The Breaker, Angus and Robertson, 1973. (a novel) George, David C. Carving From the Veldt: Rifle Carvings from the Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902,Northern Rivers, 2004. (photo of Witton's carved rifle as described in Scapegoats of the Empire) O'Brien, Antony. Bye-Bye Dolly Gray, Artillery Publishing, Hartwell, 2005. (an historical novel) Unkles, James, Ready, Aim, Fire : Major James Francis Thomas, the Fourth Victim in the Execution of Lieutenant Harry "Breaker" Morant, Sid Harta Publishers, (Glen Waverley), 2018. Wallace, R. L. Australians at the Boer War, Australian War Memorial, 1976. (a history) Wilcox, Craig. Australia's Boer War: The War in South Africa,