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This is one of the pictures my mother took at the rugby game on the 14th of June 2008, All Blacks vs England.

And I was privileged to be part of the pre-match entertainment: two medieval armies 50 strong, wearing "sable with a fern argent" and "argent, a cross and rose gules" i.e. black with a silver fern for the Kiwis, and white with a red cross and rose for the English.

I was in the centre of the English side, I have a big white kite-shaped shield, and a pointy silver helm with a brass baronial circlet around it (This is borrowed because they thought my big black full-face helm looked silly ) I die gloriously in the second lot of fighting.

This one is a slightly out of focus shot of one of the English champions dead at their feet, and more yelling and waving of weapons.

Full-size download is available for all these pictures.

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Other Pictures:

Standing Armies [link]
Forth the Black Army! [link]
The Black Wedge Tramples the English [link]
Pyros and Carbon (the back side of the black side) [link]
No Smoking Please [link]
God Save The Queen [link]
Scraps:
Standing Armies 2 [link]
Send Out Your Champs [link]
Forth the Black Army 2 [link]
White Army Fight Back [link]
Field of Casualties [link]
Pyros and Carbon 2 [link]
God Save the Queen 2 [link]

Description
This is one of the pictures my mother took at the rugby game on the 14th of June 2008, All Blacks vs England.

And I was privileged to be part of the pre-match entertainment: two medieval armies 50 strong, wearing "sable with a fern argent" and "argent, a cross and rose gules" i.e. black with a silver fern for the Kiwis, and white with a red cross and rose for the English.

I was in the centre of the English side, I have a big white kite-shaped shield, and a pointy silver helm with a brass baronial circlet around it (This is borrowed because they thought my big black full-face helm looked silly ) I die gloriously in the second lot of fighting.

This one is a slightly out of focus shot of one of the English champions dead at their feet, and more yelling and waving of weapons.

Full-size download is available for all these pictures.

****
Other Pictures:

Standing Armies [link]
Forth the Black Army! [link]
The Black Wedge Tramples the English [link]
Pyros and Carbon (the back side of the black side) [link]
No Smoking Please [link]
God Save The Queen [link]
Scraps:
Standing Armies 2 [link]
Send Out Your Champs [link]
Forth the Black Army 2 [link]
White Army Fight Back [link]
Field of Casualties [link]
Pyros and Carbon 2 [link]
God Save the Queen 2 [link]