Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Or was that Jim? eh eh eh

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

This is a true story a young drunken numbers runner left a bag full of number slips and money on a sleeper car. My grand father was a cook on the B&O railroad and porter. He found the bag and returned it to the owner who the president of the B&O railroad gave him a gold watch. But more important he was in with the mob and he owned a Bar and Lunch Room at 613 Druid Hill Ave Baltimore Maryland from the 20's to early 50's. Now their are many famous people in my family from Baltimore I should say famous in Baltimore. He was just one out of many.

Nice one Clifton.

Dress sense and erudition

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Jim Hall
Field Marshall
Commander Anglo-Allied Army

OK, I'll get in on the act. I'm not the oldest - 11 of you have admitted to being older (I'm 56 & a bit).

I have met many an interesting person. Here's a test for those of you in England.

As a paper boy in Tasmania, many years ago, as a youngster of about 13, I was selling papers to the yachties after the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. It was raining and one of the yachties, a gentleman who had been Prime Minister of Britain, and a few others from the crew, convinced me to come on board (it wasn't hard, they used hot chocolate and wet weather gear as an incentive). Whereupon they dried me off (and the papers), fitted me out with wet weather gear, and sent me on my way (with the gear!) after a (very nice) hot chocolate.

They don't do that any more, but who was it? The year was circa 70's?

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Général Mark Oakford
Duc de Smolensk, Comte d'Autun
Commandant
Réserve de Cavalerie, La Grande Armée

Ted Heath?

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Agreed...it can surely only be Ted Heath.

Heath was a keen yachtsman. He bought his first yacht Morning Cloud in 1969 and won the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race that year. He captained Britain's winning team for the Admiral's Cup in 1971 – while Prime Minister – and also captained the team in the 1979 Fastnet race. He was a member of the Sailing Club in his home town, Broadstairs. Heath's hobby is referred to in the 2008 film 'The Bank Job' where it is said that the Prime Minister himself may meet with the bank robbers "if you can drag him off his yacht".

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Colonel John Sheffield
9ème Régiment de Hussards
Brigade de Cavalerie Légère(Trelliard),
Réserve de Cavalerie,
La Grande Armée.

Gentlemen

After the sad announcement of the death of Tony Benn today I can reveal that I had the pleasure of driving him from a Union Meeting to catch his train back to London in the 1970s. A fascinating man we are unlikely to see his like again, rejecting a Peerage and not known for fiddling his expenses.

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Jim Hall
Field Marshall
Commander Anglo-Allied Army

John & Anthony,

It was indeed Ted Heath and I was 12 in 1969. Actually, I doubt that Ted Heath was actually there, I (and my parents) suspect it was simply the good will of the scurvy crew who slit open a plastic bag and created holes for my head and hands (hey, that was high tech in 1969!) and used another plastic bag for the papers.

In those days, as a kid selling papers you could go anywhere. Quite a journey!

Apologies, Jim, I don't know Tony Benn, but as an honest politician(?) or even a union man(?), he would have had few peers.

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Général Mark Oakford
Duc de Smolensk, Comte d'Autun
Commandant
Réserve de Cavalerie, La Grande Armée

Mark

Yes I think Tony Benn was a member of a now extinct species, didn't always agree with what he said but I was always willing to listen

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Jim Hall
Field Marshall
Commander Anglo-Allied Army