"The Chimp who went to War: This chimpanzee accompanied" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Sep 2015 12:57 p.m. PST |
… a skirt-wearing, tattooed commander on an epic World War I mission. "On June 12 1915, the eccentric Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson – wearing his uniform with a skirt as its centrepiece – set off to requisition two gunboats, named Mimi and Toutou, from Twickenham to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa…"
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link Amicalement
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| jpattern2 | 19 Sep 2015 5:49 p.m. PST |
Spicer-Simpson is definitely a character. The Lake Tanganyika campaign is one of those "stranger than fiction" events. |
| John the OFM | 19 Sep 2015 7:55 p.m. PST |
Mimi and Toutou go forth!
link You will have to supply your own 25mm chimp, but here is Spicer-Simpson and his boat.
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| David Manley | 19 Sep 2015 9:28 p.m. PST |
Wargame the actions here :) link |
| Tango01 | 20 Sep 2015 3:32 p.m. PST |
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goes beyond the straight line.