DCLI Posted 1 January , 2005 Share Posted 1 January , 2005 I am interested in learning more about/joining a re-enactor/living history group. I live in South London, can anybody help? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 1 January , 2005 Share Posted 1 January , 2005 sorry we are from Belgium. Our site is linked in my signature. Trenchwalker can help.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchwalker Posted 1 January , 2005 Share Posted 1 January , 2005 i can indeed the middlesex regiment do take in that area and you will also be close to a couple of our choice venues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 1 January , 2005 Share Posted 1 January , 2005 If you're looking for a more specialized group, join the glorious boys of the Machine Gun Corp in the "Vickers Machine Gunners Society 1914-45" http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/V.M.G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T8HANTS Posted 1 January , 2005 Share Posted 1 January , 2005 Hi If you are interested in the Light Infantry, then my group "The Rifles" will instruct you in the way of the Rifle Brigade of the Great War, we are a home counties based unit and are also involved with Royal Gun Powder Mills at Waltham Abbey. Find out how the lessons learned by the "Sharpe" generation a hundred years before were still of value in 1914. Contact me by the PM button at the bottom of this posting. Gareth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Dave Posted 2 January , 2005 Share Posted 2 January , 2005 Just out of curiosity, is Andrew in the military? He's the perfect age! Trenchwalker should also be presenting himself at the local recruiting office in the next few months! No more re-enacting for you two chaps, it's off to the real deal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDick Posted 2 January , 2005 Share Posted 2 January , 2005 Just out of curiosity, is Andrew in the military? He's the perfect age! Trenchwalker should also be presenting himself at the local recruiting office in the next few months! No more re-enacting for you two chaps, it's off to the real deal! Never a truer word spoken in jest, Dave. After the latest round of defence cuts, such re-enactment groups will be our second-line of defence. Little do they know it, but when they next meet they'll be surprised by a lurking civil servant and served with compulsory mobilisation papers to go to I-rak. Yee-hah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchwalker Posted 2 January , 2005 Share Posted 2 January , 2005 there are roughly 150'000 reenactors in the uk thats not a hobbie thats an army from pike block to glock as for joining the army i may be joining ta logistics soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Dave Posted 2 January , 2005 Share Posted 2 January , 2005 as for joining the army i may be joining ta logistics soon Why not the descendant of the Middlesex Regiment? Nothing wrong with being in the Infantry of the line. Infantrys not that terrible (just ignore the cold and the wet, you'll be fine) and with your interest in the history of the Regiment you'd find yourself extremely welcome. Loggies are all very wonderful people, but at the end of the day no one enjoys reading about them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 2 January , 2005 Share Posted 2 January , 2005 Just out of curiosity, is Andrew in the military? He's the perfect age! Trenchwalker should also be presenting himself at the local recruiting office in the next few months! No more re-enacting for you two chaps, it's off to the real deal! Not in the real military, and even if I wanted to, I'd probably be rejected on several areas, most notably my eyesight! Never a truer word spoken in jest, Dave. After the latest round of defence cuts, such re-enactment groups will be our second-line of defence. Little do they know it, but when they next meet they'll be surprised by a lurking civil servant and served with compulsory mobilisation papers to go to I-rak. Yee-hah! Ahhh! A chance to get to grips with Johny Foreigner with the old bayonet on a deactivated SMLE! Not one to be missed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Dave Posted 3 January , 2005 Share Posted 3 January , 2005 I'd be more than happy to form a small reinactment group based around a Vickers gun. They are here, and they do exist! I gave a friend a copy of the Vickers MG handbook from WW1 on the understanding that if he ever got one, I wanted to be part of the team. He does have a Boyes Anti Tank rifle and one of those navy heavy machine guns, so I guess it's just a matter of time before he gets a Vickers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchwalker Posted 3 January , 2005 Share Posted 3 January , 2005 thats what mr uptons group is we also have a lewis and vickers section and thank to a friend in the north a working lewis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 3 January , 2005 Share Posted 3 January , 2005 We can assist with an extra Lewis! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 3 January , 2005 Share Posted 3 January , 2005 And what about this one: We get an 18 pndr gun, I bring the shells, there are enough unexploded shells laying here in Flanders. Instead of disarming them... the British army can "recycle" them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markinbelfast Posted 3 January , 2005 Share Posted 3 January , 2005 Or if you're near Northern Ireland the local 'news'paper just yesterday, covered a reenactment group over here....oh how WW2 veterans reading the paper must have chuckled and had a warm glow at the pic of the enenactor dressed on SS uniform complete with german shepherd dog....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 3 January , 2005 Share Posted 3 January , 2005 That is the dark side of re-enacting world. But here all lads are nice WW1 re-enactors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchwalker Posted 3 January , 2005 Share Posted 3 January , 2005 yes we are . the ss reenactors are manly all looney who take there portrayal a bit to far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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