Graham Webb

Proud father of four and married since 1986 to a wonderful woman. I have an old stone house overlooking the most beautiful part of England which I enjoy in my retirement.

Pike and Shot is my period of interest. I'll stretch the pike to bayonet but that is about it. If was tied down to a specific era I would say 1590 to 1870 and with a passion for the mid C17th such as the Thirty Years War, the English Civil War and the early Northern War and Cossack border wars. If there is a pike and musket involved, then I love it. I read history books with a passion and always have done. I did not study history beyond O'level (sixteen year old school exams) because I was not interested in the range of history I would be expected to study. I knew all the ships in the Pacific war; their weights and armaments and the carrier capacity of both sides. I had an uncle who fought in Burma so that interested me. All the other stuff was of no consequence to me. I don't even remember what it was: probably industrial revolution and Liberal Politics or Cold War. I've been playing soldiers since I was little. Raised by my Grandparents because my father died when I was only three and my mother worked long hours, I knew all about WWII in which they had fought. All those 'Westerns' on TV, coupled with the stories of my grandparents, engendered a strong sense of justice in me. We fought and many died, to liberate Europe and all those people are my heroes. Like Bilbo Baggins and Frodo, they are flawed characters but brave in the face of an ever darkening world. So, anything became a soldier to me. I had armies made of discarded cigarette packets for instance. I made forts from matches and fought large scale battles with them. That has grown on the high quality wargaming and re-enactment. Since the age of 17, I have been a re-enactment soldier of one sort of another, right up until the date of typing this - hopefully for a long time from now also.

* Фактический адрес проживания определен с точностью до города: Великобритания, Шеффилд, Sheffield.