Yes, Morant was an Englishman. And a murderous one too.
It was different then though - NZ and Aus were still very much part of England and its empire and kept a colonial outlook. And if you weren't English or Scottish then often your parents were. The distinction was not what it is today - but, the ANZAC's in WW1 were the beginning of a proper national consciousness that hadn't happened prior. The patriotism of that war, sentimental or contrived or not, elevated the countries self respect.
You drive around the little country towns in NZ, and I imagine it is the same in Australia, and the names of the dead on war memorials are two or three times the number of the second world war.
