Just clearing up the Units to which my Pig Tickling contingent are drawn from this time Dear Reader, there has been a bit of confusion as to what Regiments are portrayed!
The Great 1911 British Coronation Procession Pig Tickling Tournament
During the 1911 British Coronation Procession for King George V and Queen Mary it was decided to field a Grand Pig Tickling Contest, the largest ever seen! A selection of the best ‘Ticklers’ were drawn from the Yeomanry Regiments and the Guards. A grand playing field was erected in the centre of Hyde Park including a Royal Pavilion. The day after the Procession the Tournament began in earnest, there’ll be more on that later. As an aside the 1911 Pig Tickling Tournament was the last to employ Steam Powered Pigs, after this the porkers as they were affectionately known were converted back to their original clockwork mechanisms, the Stokers were replaced with Master Clock Smiths!
Our Pig Ticking Cast…
Left to right…
The North Irish Horse (Yeomanry)
The Northamptonshire Yeomanry
The Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Left to right…
The Lincolnshire Yeomanry
The Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry
The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
Left to right…
The East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
The King’s Own Royal Regiment (Norfolk Yeomanry)
The Foot Guards (given an honorary Yeomanry placement)
Left to right…
The Nottinghamshire Imperial Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
The Essex Yeomanry
The Lovat Scouts Yeomanry
Left to right…
Stoker with Coal Bucket, Billy
Umpire on Unicycle, Captain George Flashman (retired)
Steam Powered Pig, Terry
Stoker with Shovel, Gunga
These figures beside being used for Pig Ticking will be employed in my VSF games, in fact they are to used to form a combined Light Unicycled Unit in my next VSF foray where the finest British Redcoasts will engage in some Biffo with a lot of unsavoury Continental Types! 😊
Next Time: An AAR filled with Action and Derring-do…Smashing What!
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