Pictures!!

Sep. 10th, 2010 01:20 pm
sharpiefan: Line of Age of Sail Marines on parade (Firing)
[personal profile] sharpiefan posting in [community profile] w_i_r
(Mainly of me in kit, but hey.)

Thumbnails are clickable. I've put the majority below a cut because I ended up putting in a ton of pics!

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This is me with my new Marine hat - the company had made a mistake with the plume and I hadn't yet sorted it out when this was taken. I'm doing a Marine impression in my 50th uniform, but unless you know, I can get away with it. I don't do Marines often enough to have to worry.

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Aboard HMS Victory. This was the most amazing thing. It was during the Victorian Festival of Christmas, held in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, and while I wasn't the only person dressed up, I was the only person there from the early part of the 19th century. I couldn't take my musket, but I wouldn't have been allowed aboard if I had.

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With a couple of other participants: The officer from the Fort Cumberland Guard, and a Victorian bobby. (The blue carrier bag contains a book I'd just bought in the RN Museum shop that wouldn't fit into my bread-bag. Oops.)

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A Marine in the Marines' messdeck. "And this is where the soldiers lived." *turns around from reading one of the information cards* "Excuse me, but we're Royal Marines!"

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My more usual guise, as a soldier of his Majesty's 50th Regiment of Foot, known by the men as the Dirty Half Hundred, and by the officers as the Old Black Cuffs.

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The battle display at Detling in 2006 - it rained on the battle, it rained on the march back to camp. We were getting wet by the time we got back to camp, but then the sun came out. I'm just amazed we managed to fire anything in the wet!

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The first outing for our Regimental Colour, at the annual reunion of the East Kent Regimental Association (the West and East Kent Regimental Associations have very close links and the two regiments were merged, along with others, in 1966 to form the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment).

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Time to relax!

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And, to finish, one of my favourites. This was taken at Woolwich a couple of years ago, and I was going through the prime and load sequence watched by Paul Bigley (Dobbs in Sharpe's Eagle.)

Date: 2010-09-10 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] black_hound
Oh, these are awesome.

I just LOVE the first pic with 'time to relax'. It's just perfect.

Date: 2010-09-12 09:12 am (UTC)
potboy: (O'Brian - Hoares)
From: [personal profile] potboy
How fantastic! And how brilliant to be on HMS Victory :) I envy you your figure - unfortunately it's been a long time since I could pass as a boy, but you really look the part.

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