Classic wargaming: Classic Scrapbook

Thought I would just post up a gallery page of miscellaneous photos ... a sort of scrapbook of Classic wargame snaps - never forgetting it's about the people, not the figures.

First up: Three Men in a Wargames Room...
myself, Charles S Grant and Stuart Asquith, between courses at dinner one evening at my home. We managed to escape the ladies for a short tour of my wargames room...

Below: Peter Young, Sicily 1943. Photo courtesy of Bill Protz.

Sadly, I never met Peter Young... but I have handled one of his figures...
Below: The Man in the Iron Mask is one of the many campaign characters that reside in the collection of Charles Grant...

The Hyndford Plaque... Photo courtesy of Charles Grant.
This plaque was put up by David Chandler at Peter Young's previous home.

Below: Stuart Asquith and Charles S Grant - this photo taken in Charles' wargames room just before we refought Minden.

Below: a highly treasured item in my collection, a gift from Charles on completion of The St Michel campaign...

one of his father's figures: a Preobrazhenski Grenadier.

Below: VFS forces under my command launch the attack on St Michel... a fine victory!

Below: on another occasion, young Charles M Grant took charge of the VFS forces when we played Lobositz for The Wargame Companion.

Below: Professor Christopher Duffy. When he spoke at Culloden a few years ago, I was fortunate to spend an hour with him afterwards, one to one, just chewing the 18th century military fat. Well, if I'm honest, I was sensible enough to do a lot of listening...

Below: Alasdair Jamison and David Shuttleworth, two of my longest standing wargame pals, here in Alasdair's wargames room.
David runs the Wargame Amateur blog (see links).

Charge! The Cast of Characters

The Emperor

The Elector, Petrus I

General Soubise – commanding Electoral forces at Blasthof Bridge

Count von Kornberg – commanding Imperial forces at Blasthof Bridge, and later playing a significant role at Sittangbad

Dr J Evans Mudd – noted military historian who commented on conduct of both generals at Blasthof Heath, and subsequently "thought it wise to study the natural beauties of neutral Switzerland."

Princess Catherine of Hesse-Damall – kidnapped by the Elector thereby igniting the campaign that led up to Sittangbad

Archduke Guitar – commander of the Imperialist field army sent to seize the Electoral capital. His army was defeated and he, relieved of its command, returned over the Weser before the Battle of Sittangbad.

General Lentulus – replaced Guitar and was Imperial commander at Sittangbad

Lt Col Fuchs – Lentulus’ chief of staff

General Sapt- commander of the contingent billeted in Sittangbad; Lancers de saxe, Pandour regt, and B battery field artillery.

The Herzog Johann – commander of Electoral army at Sittangbad.von Luckner - Electoral cavalry commander at Sittangbad

Brigadier Lord Hyndford – Lentulus second-in-command at Sittangbad, a “British volunteer”. He was left to command the rearguard as the rest of the Imperial army retired over the Weser.

General Gabler - mentioned only in the Tail Piece notes

General Krump – mentioned only in the Tail Piece notes

Graf von Grunt – mentioned in the Tail Piece, this was Brigadier Peter Young’s on table persona.

Units in "Charge!"

These units are named / photographed. Other units do appear in photographs and their identity can be gleaned from the text, but all is not always as it seems!

To illustrate line infantry organisation and formations:
-Erbprinz regt

Used as example illustrations accompanying the text. Whether they were simply names devised for that purpose or these units did in fact exist is not made clear:
-1st Fieldboot Battalion
-2nd Sharpshooters
-3rd Whisky Mac regt

Used for the section illustrating combat, with Smith and Jones as the players:
-The Pultava Guards (appear to be The Erbprinz in another guise!)
-B Battery, Royal Thracian Artillery
-Douro Grenadiers – the unit appears in the photos of Sittangbad, and must be acting under a different name
-Musselburgh Fusiliers - ditto

On the sample order sheet. Again, perhaps simply named for the purpose of illustrating the sheet, although some do appear to have been real on-table units, appearing in Sittangbad:
-Kornberg’s Cuirassiers
-Von Bock’s Dragoons
-Lanciers de Saxe
-5 Jaeger
-6 Jaeger
-Pandour Grenadiers
-Isembourg Regt
-7th Regt
-2nd Engineers Regt

And then of course there’s the units for the battle of Sittangbad:
-Imperial Forces
Lancers de Saxe (light cavalry)
Kornberg’s Cuirassiers (heavy cavalry)
Kleist Frei Corps (light infantry regt)
Isembourg Regt (a line infantry regt)
Coy Waldeck (an independent company)
Pandour Regt (a line infantry regt)
B Battery Field Artillery
3rd Engineer Bn

-Electoral Forces
1st Uhlan Regt (light cavalry)
Dragoons of Montmort (heavy cavalry)
Gendarmerie (heavy cavalry)
Garde Jaeger (light infantry regt)
Erbprinz regt (line infantry regt)
Steinzeit Regt (line infantry regt)
Electoral Footguards( line infantry regt)
Gentlemen Pensioners regt (line infantry regt)
3 Batteries of Field Artillery
Engineer bn

Additional units are mentioned in The Wargames Companion. Thanks to Charles S Grant for documenting these in that wonderful accompaniment to his father’s work, The Wargame. The chapter dealing with Peter Young is littered with wonderful stories about the man, and lists more of his figures. Amongst these are such enticing names as the Schnurrband Infantry, theUhlans Brittaniques and the Montmirail militia.

5 comments:

Unknown said...: Hi there
I am a Curator of new Second World War Galleries at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London. I am planning to include Peter Young in our displays about the Commandos. I would really like to use the image of him [Peter Young, Sicily 1943. Photo courtesy of Bill Protz] that is on this page [http://classicwargaming.blogspot.co.uk/p/classic-scrapbook.html] and wondered if it would be possible to get in touch with Bill Protz to ask for permission to use it?
Any help gratefully received!
Many thanks
Kate

Kate Clements
Curator, Second World War Galleries
IWM
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
W iwm.org.uk; 25 January 2018 at 11:55
Henry Hyde said...: Kate, I’m doing so for you right this second.; 21 February 2018 at 21:57
Unknown said...: Hi Henry
That's great - thank you!
Kind regards
Kate; 22 February 2018 at 11:49
Unknown said...: Hi Henry
I've received your message via the IWM Twitter account and will get in touch with William Protz via the email address you provided - thanks very much for helping me out!
Kind regards
Kate; 23 February 2018 at 11:50
Phil said...: Hi Kate. Thank you for your interest, and apologies for not seeing your enquiry earlier. Thanks to my good pal Henry for picking this up and replying. Hope you found what you needed. Best regards. Phil; 17 August 2018 at 09:44

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