It'd been a little while since we'd visited the Very British Civil War, but earlier in the month Andy took Phil and myself back to 1930's where we found the British Union of Fascists on a chicken rustling mission in darkest Somerset!
A small group of Communists were stationed in a farm near the village of Freshford when suddenly they spotted khaki clad sections of BUF infantry moving across the fields towards them! A couple of comrades fired out of the top window of the farmhouse, causing the Fascists to duck...
Hearing the gunfire a nearby Communist patrol moved swiftly towards the farm...
But they came under fire from a third section of Fascist troops!
Two brave comrades fell to the enemy fire and the patrol took Shock.
Meanwhile back at the farm, one of the Fascist sections moved into the yard and tried to start a set fire to burn down the farmhouse! More evidence here of how the BUF are not on the side of the agrarian worker as they try and destroy their home and livelihood!
A fourth section of BUF troops tried to advance on the barn, but came under fire from a well placed Communist Lewis Gun!
However the Fascists unleashed more gunfire on the ambushed Communist patrol...
Two more making the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of the proletariat!
The sounds of battle had been heard and reported to the local Communist HQ who quickly despatched reinforcements from nearby Bradford-on-Avon...
Spotting the BUF in the farmyard, the Communist reinforcements de-bussed and aimed a few shots at the khaki-clad Fascists.
More Communist reinforcements arrived moving up through the undergrowth opening fire...
On a BUF section hunkered down on the edge of the farm.
The Communist troops pushed forward towards the farm to try and rescue their comrades and thwart the Fascists machinations...
But their efforts were too little two late as the BUF successfully set fire to the farmhouse and another farm building - a Somerset farming family's livelihood destroyed by Mosely's thugs!
To add salt to the farmer's wounds the BUF then stole some of his chickens - hopefully their eggs will give the Fascists salmonella!
Bit of a bad day for the Communists in rural Somerset, they never really managed to get in the game and the BUF had a bit of an easy day of it, apart from the section the Lewis Gun was taking a pop at. Never mind, the Fascists did flee the field with their ill-gotten gains so the Red Flag still flies over rural Somerset!
O ye rich men hear and tremble! For with words the sound is rife.
“Once for you and death we labored; changed henceforward is the strife.
We are men and we shall battle for the world of men and life,
And our host is marching on.”
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