The Company of St. Michael, that well-known Anglican "Free Company", possessed either divine engineering skills, or a very good press agent, or perhaps both. VBCW historians still argue about that matter, and continue to marvel at the Company's well publicised "heavy weaponry":
We had better let Major Bernard Temple-Meades (ret.) (Dave) explain "the Storridge Skunk":
"Although they had managed to acquire sufficient small arms and ammunition for them, the Company of St Michael was desperately short of support weapons. They therefore had to improvise solutions where military weapons weren't available. Adding improvised armour and a Lewis gun to an agricultural tractor produced a solution of sorts. However, this one also had a sting in its tail.
Fitting a captured mortar would provide fire support if the company could get more ammunition than the six rounds they captured with the mortar. In absence of proper ammunition the company resorted to a home made solution. The vehicle's name soon came from the sulphurous smell of the improvised mortar bomb propellant emanating from its rear....."
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| "The Storridge Skunk" (Crew - Reiver) |
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