MARCHING THROUGH HEREFORD - VBCW "BUF CABINET"

From the bulging manila files of "Big X", Anglican spymaster and Chief of the Ecclesiastical Intelligence Service, Ludlow, emerges these VBCW BUF photographs:

The Leaders - the "BUF Cabinet"
Back Row, L to R - John H. Hone, Jack E.M.Atherley, John Thompson, Richard A Plathen, Robert Gordon Canning,
John W. Beckett, Bryan D.E. Donovan, Lt-Col.Charles S. Sharpe, William Leaper
Front Row, L to R - Alexander Raven Thompson, Eric Hamilton Piercy, Ian Hope Dundas, Oswald Mosley, Neil LM Francis Hawkins, Wilfred Risdon, William Joyce.

The Followers - Hereford VBCW BUF marching across Castle Green in
celebration of the capture of the Bishop of Hereford and the fall of the City.
 An early phase of the Civil War. It is likely that these troops took an active
part in the Battle of Ledbury as a component part of the "Three Counties Legion".

Notes

(1). perhaps surprisingly, the political structure relied upon by Mosley upon his accession to "the Premiership" at the beginning of the VBCW has not (as yet) been subject to a great deal of historical research. What can be said with confidence is that, while the existing outward structures were maintained (the House of Commons and Lords, etc.), real power was exercised, in tandem, by the King in person (supported by his devoted "Royalists") and Mosley and his BUF Cabinet (supported by his fanatical 'movement').

(2). Historians of the alt-universe (of self-styled "reality") argue that the second photograph is in fact of the East Ham BUF on 11th November 1936, on their way to lay a wreath at the local War Memorial. It is presently unclear when the first photograph was taken, but it is also likely to be 1936 (Joyce, for example, left the BUF in 1937). Historians of the VBCW, dealing of course with an entirely different time-line and arguing that such historical judgments are "as likely as a grocer's daughter becoming Prime Minister" place the BUF Cabinet photograph firmly in 1938 and point out that the topography of Castle Green is 'clearly recognisable' in the second photograph (albeit that its most notable feature, the Nelson Monument, is 'regrettably just out of shot').