The Battle of Waterloo is recreated in a South end Pub: The 42 members of South end War games Club were staging their biggest battle with 32 regiments and 1,000 tiny lead or plastic soldiers on each side, worth a total of £1,500. Member spent an hour recreating the battle of Waterloo on a huge table at the Nelson public house in Southend, Essex. The troops, three quarters of an inch high, stood information copied from an strategy book. The rules are complicated even bewildering, but each commander must write down his orders to each unit within a limit for each unit, Cavalry, for instance may go farther than infantry. Everyone moves at the same time. A dice decides how may are killed, the state of morale, whether cavalry are advancing, retiring or reforming. The battle raged fast, furious and unbloodied until Mike Fry, the landlord of the Nelson, who played the part of Napoleon, announced that it was time for the last orders and the next move would have to be the last. Photo shows Ken Lazenby, a member of the Southend Wargames Club, man oeuvres the French cavalry, during the Battle of Waterloo at the Nelson pub in Southend.
Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.
Photo is dated 10-2-1970.
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