AUTUMN BIG GAME (PART SIX) - ADVANCE INTO STRANGENESS...

 With Spode's armour despatched, the Bishop of Lichfield ordered a general infantry advance:

Forward! The once threatened infantry section
make it safely across the field...

aided by another section of infantry on the left
(i.e. the distaff side)

It was now, however, that events began to take a very strange turn:

A squad of Anglican Morris Men are the first to discover
that Spode's much vaunted pillboxes and fortifications..

..are nothing but lathe and plaster fronts, staffed by straw dummies..

staked up Fort Zinderneuf style to confuse the enemy..

..at least, that's what we think they were...or were they straw
dolls, animated by strange Mommet magic?

With no news from either commander on the ticker tape,
we must leave the reader to make up his own mind
as to exactly what happened north of Leominster..

More to follow....